![]() ![]() Her self-definition was this - we are people who are no longer willing to live with segregation now, we understand you may kill us for that, but that's your problem, not ours. Diane Nash was an amazing young woman, a college student in Nashville, about 20 years old in 1960, as they were beginning the sit-in demonstrations at lunch counters to demand integration. The civil rights movement began with self-definition - who are we and what are we trying to do? Let me tell you a short story that captures that. ![]() military, that the civil rights movement did strategy better than the U.S. I think, after years of studying the U.S. If you don't have a strategy, you have basically a car without a steering wheel. One of your principles is that strategy is foremost. INSKEEP: Well, let's talk about some of the principles of military action that you think can describe or explain what the civil rights movement attempted to do or sometimes failed to do. And I think the civil rights movement was militant from the beginning - militant not in the sense of grabbing people by the throat militant in the sense of being well-disciplined, extremely hierarchical, focused on preparation, doing great training like role playing, pouring coffee on people to prepare them for being attacked in demonstrations, and following up with analysis of how each campaign went and what they could do better. And what a lot of people in the movement did - Martin Luther King, James Lawson and others - is turn to the works of Gandhi, the great Indian independence leader who himself insisted that nonviolence was actually quite militant. #Strategic war college how to#THOMAS RICKS: You're looking at how to conduct a sustained campaign over years against a violent enemy. And they succeeded by following principles of war. Tom Ricks says their effort was much like a war. ![]() Those civil rights protesters chose not to arm themselves. His book "Waging A Good War" is about the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Now he has turned his experience to the history of a nonviolent campaign for change. He covered the war in Iraq, among other conflicts, and has written many books. Tom Ricks is one of the most distinguished war correspondents of our time. ![]()
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