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In reply to the discussion: In a now locked thread, critical of DUers, critical President Obama ... [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)cumulative (organic, if you will) actions of "the people". If I recall, it was the cumulative effect of what bus riders were able to do in boycotting public transportation that called attention to Rosa Parks.
The saying, "never under-estimate the actions..." of a group of people (sic) explains how change came about. It never is the act of leadership at the top, but if leaders "at the top" choose never to respond, then I guess what you have is a failed "movement".
Maybe these acts are best described in history when told from "A People's History of the United States" prospective, which is what Howard Zinn was attempting to do with that book.
My grandmother, an immigrant from Italy, along with her sister, decided they would forgo their "pay" and not show up the day the Triangle Shirtwaist Company's fire happened. Look at what had to happen to labor on that day for a "progressive labor movement" to start. Cumulative efforts...