Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr-
He began his career as a baptist preacher . He dedicated his life to achieving equality and justice for all Americans of all colors. King believed that peaceful refusal to obey unjust law was the best way to bring about social change. King was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi´s success with non-violent activism . on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks , an afrikan American woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man . here is when the Montgomery bus boycott takes place , it was planned by Nixon and led by King , it lasted 385 days and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed and he was arrested .This boycott conludes with a United States District Court ending with racial segregation on Montgomery public buses .
In 1957 , King and others activits create SCLC ( Southern Christian Leadership Conference) The group was created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct non-violent protests in the service of civil rights reform. King led the SCLC until his death.
King believed that organized, nonviolent protest against the system of southern segregation known as Jim Crow laws would lead to extensive media coverage of the struggle for black equality and voting rights. Journalistic accounts and televised footage of the daily deprivation and indignities suffered by southern blacks, and of segregationist violence and harassment of civil rights workers and marchers, produced a wave of sympathetic public opinion that convinced the majority of Americans that the Civil Rights Movement was the most important issue in American politics in the early 1960s.
King organized and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were successfully enacted into the law of the United States with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
King and the SCLC put into practice many of the
He began his career as a baptist preacher . He dedicated his life to achieving equality and justice for all Americans of all colors. King believed that peaceful refusal to obey unjust law was the best way to bring about social change. King was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi´s success with non-violent activism . on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks , an afrikan American woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man . here is when the Montgomery bus boycott takes place , it was planned by Nixon and led by King , it lasted 385 days and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed and he was arrested .This boycott conludes with a United States District Court ending with racial segregation on Montgomery public buses .
In 1957 , King and others activits create SCLC ( Southern Christian Leadership Conference) The group was created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct non-violent protests in the service of civil rights reform. King led the SCLC until his death.
King believed that organized, nonviolent protest against the system of southern segregation known as Jim Crow laws would lead to extensive media coverage of the struggle for black equality and voting rights. Journalistic accounts and televised footage of the daily deprivation and indignities suffered by southern blacks, and of segregationist violence and harassment of civil rights workers and marchers, produced a wave of sympathetic public opinion that convinced the majority of Americans that the Civil Rights Movement was the most important issue in American politics in the early 1960s.
King organized and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were successfully enacted into the law of the United States with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
King and the SCLC put into practice many of the