Gandhi And Mlk's Role In The Civil Rights Movement

Primarily, a major factor in the success of the movement for equality was the strategy of protesting for justice without using any forms of violence. Some examples includes: rallies, vigils, boycotts, sit-ins and many more. During his speech delivered in accepting the Nobel prize for peace, Reverend leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King believes in a peaceful protest could change the mentality of our time. This particular belief was inspired by the teaching of the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi who used nonviolent techniques in the struggle to secure India's freedom from the Great Britain. Both Gandhi and MLK insisted of a fundamental internal conversion from violence to nonviolence as the basis of our work for justice, human rights and peace.
In fact, in that time violence for blacks people was a way for them to defend themselves against the system plagued by injustice . The civil rights movement was known for his history of violence, in 1955; reverend George Lee vice, president of the regional council of Negro leadership as well as an NAACP worker was shot in the face for trying to urge blacks of Mississippi to vote. With regard to this nonsensical violence, MLK did mention in his Nobel Prize speech of how he was aware of the mistreatment of the colored people; “I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death”. Therefore the success of it has changed the perspective of so many multicultural