The Non-Violent Approach of the Civil Rights Movement

After the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, most of the American left had shed its remaining illusions about Stalinism in the USSR. Many on the American left looking for a new proletariat to lead since the working class that they had inherited had been placated by this rapid increase in their prospects and standard of living. And they found that new proletariat when they turned on their TVs in 1960 and saw black demonstrators facing down in rage southern police with marchers playing the Jews and sheriffs playing the Nazis. Even the police dogs were German shepherds. That's why it all weren't. You know, the police weren't putting down riots. They were going upside the heads of people who were engaged in