There were many political movements in history, each with their own strategy for mobilizing the people to rise to the cause. However, each of these strategies had similar goals -- to reach as many people as possible. Each movement was staged in different times and the social conditions of those times influenced the ways that the leaders of these poltical movements mobilized, but the similarities in their strategies are noticible. The slave revolt organized by Denmark Vesey and the Civil Rights Movement are prime examples of these different strategies of mobilizing society.
             Denmark Vesey had three main tactics for attracting support for his slave revolt, religion, fear and intelligence. Vesey was a minister class leader at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He used his session of bilblical instruction to put his word out to groups of people. He "tried to prove from it [the Bible] that slavery and bondage is against the Bible (Robertson, 47)." He read from the Bible about "how the children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt from bondage." It was testified at his trial that he "emphasized frequently, and which his black listeners... recalled his applying to their bondage at Charleston were Josua 6:21 and Zacharia 14:1-2: 'And they utterly destroyed all tthat were in the city, both man and woman, both youg and old...' and 'Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, adn they spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I shall gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished...'" By utlilizing passages from the BIble to show that slavery was wrong and to demonstrate his desire for a violent and total revolt, he was telling the blacks of Charleston that God willed their revolt.
             Vesey used relitgion because the AME Church was a meeting place of slaves and free blacks away fro...