How Did Martin Luther King Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

The focus of this investigation will be “How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott lead to the rise of Martin Luther King Jr? In this process I will analyze the effects in which Martin Luther King had on his audience, as well as how other members of the nonviolence protest group, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), assisted in his emergence as a prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. For this investigation, it will be important to mention other leaders, such as Malcolm X or Rosa Parks, that gave King this leader image that he himself could not portray alone during the non violent protests, as well as how they set the “step stool” towards King’s rise to power during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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But, before the boycott even began, four days previous, an African American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white male. Ultimately, the Supreme Court directed Montgomery to unify their buses, in this occurrence arose a pastor named Martin Luther King Jr as the prominent leader of this boycott in which it further lead to his rise with many other non violent American civil rights movements. Some historians would argue that it was Martin Luther King Jr’s background as a pastor that made him the powerful and successful leader he was and not just this event specifically but because of the way he could interact with the people of Montgomery as
With Rosa Parks status and Martin Luther King fairly new to Montgomery during this time, for him to be representing Rosa Parks position as spokesperson and the rest of the NAACP, the African American community were fairly dependent on him to provide a better and fair system throughout, starting with the bus system. The people of Montgomery needed someone to confide in and trust and because Rosa had been arrested, King was there hope in the corrupt and unfair system they lived in. King’s timing was just perfect, him fairly just moving to Montgomery, being a pastor at the time there too and during the Jim Crow Laws impacted his rank even more. The more King spoke about the event itself and how he, and many other members of the NAACP, could help to “fix” the problems in Montgomery starting with this boycott because it was the first incident in which sparked major response. This event not only demonstrated a protest against segregation but an emergence of a leader who spoke for the African American community that was afraid to do so, illustrated the struggle to commence the American dream of freedom and equality. King’s approaches in resolving the boycott were proven to be functional and