During the nineteen fifties, he helped organize non-violent sit-in protests and boycotts of segregated white businesses.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

During the 1950s, Hooks and the NAACP helped to organize many of the black-led boycotts of segregated white businesses, and non-violent sit-in protests that became emblematic of the burgeoning civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King,Jr.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Mr Dolci tried to stir up the regional government in Palermo and the national government in Rome, embarrassing them with Gandhi-style hunger-strikes, sit-down protests, non-violent demonstrations theatrical happenings, eagerly reported in northern Europe.

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci