In the 1950s, reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. and the civil rights movement used (nonviolent action seeking to change a policy or law by refusing to comply with it) to call attention to racial inequality and to demand greater inclusion of african americans in all areas of public life.

Peaceful protest against the whites

The fact that farmers were paid for destroying crops.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.