In what ways did the African American civil rights movement influence the protest methods of other groups in American society?

The use of non-violent
public protests and the advocacy of legal changes by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and
60s influenced the protest methods of other groups in American society. The Civil Rights
movement pioneered the use of non-violent techniques, inspired by Gandhi and used by Martin
Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and other groups. These techniques
included public protests, sit-ins, boycotts, and other forms of non-violence. In addition, the
Civil Rights movement pushed for new federal laws to guarantee civil rights and won the passage
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The
women's rights movement, the lesbian and gay movement (now the LGBTQ movement), and the Native
American rights movement, among others, employed these techniques. For example, the women's
movement held many peaceful protests and supported the Equal Rights Amendment to the
Constitution (which was never passed) to create legal and economic...