They organised peaceful demonstrations , and non aggressive/ passive resistance to police and troops while doing so , although violence did erupt , more in america as there was so much hatred instilled between black and white ( I use the term of the time ) with virtual apartheid in place in the south , if you really want to see how it was then google selma , alabama . And that was just for the right to attend school with the whites , to eat in the same eateries , to even use the same toilets , oh yes and the right to walk on the boardwalk at the same time as whites . More.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.