Civil Disobedience is defined as the refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government. On July 13th, 1999, more than three hundred minority construction workers, successfully demonstrated civil disobedience. The posse managed to block both directions of Interstate-70, during the Monday morning rush hour traffic. High level activists, Jim Buford and Al Sharpton joined the St. Louis construction workers, in their effort to …showed first 75 words of 379 total…

…showed last 75 words of 379 total…guilty received community service. Al Sharpton, on the other hand, was found guilty of impeding traffic and disobeying police orders. He was ordered to pay a six hundred dollar fine. Sharpton is considering an appeal. Overall, the end justified the means. The late governor Mel Carnahan must have been moved into action. The state temporarily supports a new Construction Readiness Training Center in Wellston. The program is planned to operate (permanently) in North St. Louis.