"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude," this is what is stated in the 14th amendment and this is what the civil rights campaign fought against.

This essay is about how important non-violent protest was in the struggle for civil rights. In this essay I will focus on various events that represent non-violent protest and will explain why it was relevant in the struggle for civil rights. The topics I will look at will be, the Brown v Topeka Board of Education court case that came as a result of inequity in the education system. In 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower sends U.S. Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the desegregation of schools. The next significant event that I will...