King intended to fill the jails with nonviolent protesters to make a moral argument to the United States.

The department's efficiency has not come without some cost, including the arrest of several innocent bystanders and nonviolent protesters.

Now, he was about to join a civil disobedience in which 54 nonviolent protesters would be arrested.

The vast majority of nonviolent protesters are charged with something like disorderly conduct, a violation, and their cases get an A.C.D.

The worst reports came out of a local preschool, where a number of apparently nonviolent protesters had been staying.

Today, the police made about 400 arrests of mostly nonviolent protesters.

The images of Alabama law enforcement beating the nonviolent protesters were shown all over the country and the world by television networks and newspapers.

A nonviolent protester is taken away by police at a civil-rights demonstration.

The next day, more children showed up to march downtown, and Bull Connor ordered firefighters to turn high-pressure hoses on the young, nonviolent protesters.

Concerns have been raised about police tactics in arresting nonviolent protesters with many apparently innocent people being swept up in mass arrests.