The Civil Rights Movement: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For many years America has justified the separation of people due to skin color, this was known as segregation. Eventually people began to stand up against this oppression, these actions and events will later be known as the civil rights movement, a movement that has spread all across america causing uprisings all over for the fight for desegregation. People such as Dr.Martin Luther King, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks and the students of Little Rock, known as Little Rock Nine are all major historical figures in the civil rights movement. The struggle to gain the rights that african americans now have was extremely difficult Civil rights activist faced mistreatments such as threats, violence and verbal abuse.
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is a commonly known name when it comes to the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. used his writing skills to write speeches which inspired many and promoted nonviolence. With his famously known speech “I Had A Dream” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spread the ideas of blacks and whites living together in unison. DLK continuously convinced others that nonviolence was the best way to gain equal rights . Being one of the leading advocates of bus boycott dlk and others were able to form peaceful protest that eventually gained there rights on buses. Dr.Martin luther king and others use non-violence which shown to have the outcome that all supporters of unsegregated buses wanted. Dr.Martin Luther king was a revolutionary and he fought for change and equal rights, stubborn and angered whites were unable to accept this and Went as far as murdering martin luther king. mlk's death caused the movement to lose mometum for quite sometime however eventually the movement began to pick up pace once again. This violence may have set back the movement but it failed to stop it
Protestors formed sit-ins, A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. Protestors that were simply sitting, were attacked and faced with violence. These violent actions did not undermine the movement but improved the awareness of the