Impact of KKK on MLK and His Quest for Civil Rights
‘What impact did the KKK have on MLK and his decisions on his quest for civil rights?’
The life of Martin Luther King Jr. was a life he dedicated to the advancement of civil rights for blacks. King had many influences that are well known to others such as his wife and friends, Gandhi and his non-violent approach to change, the Presidents especially LBJ, but what about the Ku Klux Klan? The KKK were a white supremacy group in the United States of America thats goal was to stop the advancement of black rights, and to do so often times would commit heinous crimes against blacks and whites that tried to help blacks. While some people say that MLK was not affected by the KKK because of his constant tactic of non-violence, he and his decisions were affected largely by the KKK’s both directly and indirectly. Some may say that the KKK had very little to no effect on MLK and his decisions. Gandhi had a large impact on King and his tactics of nonviolence. It seemed that King would never resort to using violence to achieve his goals. When King’s house was firebombed by KKK members in an attempt to scare him off in a response to the Montgomery bus boycott. King’s family was in the house at the time of the attack, but luckily there were no serious injuries. The Black community at the time amassed a large angry mob and some were armed and ready to seek out revenge, however King spoke to crowd and called for a nonviolent response and for the ones with weapons to get rid of them. In both Selma and Birmingham where kings campaigns encountered great violence from the whites and KKK king still resorted to nonviolence However King was affected both directly and indirectly by the KKK. The Firebombing of his house in Montgomery caused him to move his family to Atlanta to better protect his family from the violence and the constant threats on his life. “Fifty unsolved racially motivated bombings between 1945 and 1962 had earned the city the nickname "Bombingham". A neighborhood
The life of Martin Luther King Jr. was a life he dedicated to the advancement of civil rights for blacks. King had many influences that are well known to others such as his wife and friends, Gandhi and his non-violent approach to change, the Presidents especially LBJ, but what about the Ku Klux Klan? The KKK were a white supremacy group in the United States of America thats goal was to stop the advancement of black rights, and to do so often times would commit heinous crimes against blacks and whites that tried to help blacks. While some people say that MLK was not affected by the KKK because of his constant tactic of non-violence, he and his decisions were affected largely by the KKK’s both directly and indirectly. Some may say that the KKK had very little to no effect on MLK and his decisions. Gandhi had a large impact on King and his tactics of nonviolence. It seemed that King would never resort to using violence to achieve his goals. When King’s house was firebombed by KKK members in an attempt to scare him off in a response to the Montgomery bus boycott. King’s family was in the house at the time of the attack, but luckily there were no serious injuries. The Black community at the time amassed a large angry mob and some were armed and ready to seek out revenge, however King spoke to crowd and called for a nonviolent response and for the ones with weapons to get rid of them. In both Selma and Birmingham where kings campaigns encountered great violence from the whites and KKK king still resorted to nonviolence However King was affected both directly and indirectly by the KKK. The Firebombing of his house in Montgomery caused him to move his family to Atlanta to better protect his family from the violence and the constant threats on his life. “Fifty unsolved racially motivated bombings between 1945 and 1962 had earned the city the nickname "Bombingham". A neighborhood