To further exemplify my point that, non violent protest are indeed superior to violent protests when we talk about the effectiveness, we will examine a historic event that used non violent methods as a way to try and achieve social change, the renowned ‘March on Washington.’ On Wednesday August 28, 1962, more than 250,000 Americans, Black and White, convened in Washington D.C for the celebrated and famed political rally known as the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The purpose of the non violent protest was to expose the continuation of political and social challenges African Americans faced across America, over a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, urging for reforms to be made in civil and economic rights.

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Things got erratic for the Civil Rights movement in the late months of 1962 and the earlier months of 1963: “George Wallace, Governor of Alabama at the time, tried to stop the racial integration at the University of Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. was thrown into jail in Birmingham, and civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, had been ruthlessly murdered outside his own home, ” writes Samuel G. Freedman of The New York Times. The demonstration, in particular, "turned the anger and frustration with which many arrived that morning into a sense of empowerment far more powerful than anything we had felt until that day," says Michael Wenger off the Huffington Post. We saw, through the Civil Disobedience, Persuasive Rhetoric and Demonstration, the March on Washington successfully and effectively reached its intended goal, but a question that needs to be asked is, ‘if the March on Washington had violent intention would it have achieved parallel success?’ “If the march had fizzled or turned violent, it might well have been the ‘the death knell for the the movement itself,” says John McWhorter, chief-editor of the Huffington