Martin Luther King Jr.: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

For the past three centuries the black population of America had been discriminated and prosecuted against by the white community. Centuries of fighting this discrimination have allowed great leaders among the black community to emerge. One such leader is Martin Luther King Jr., an inspiring and symbolic figure for civil right movements around the world. His leadership and determination in his campaigns against racial discrimination and his campaign to help the deprived people of the United States show that King is a courageous and skillful leader.

Throughout his lifetime Martin Luther King Jr. staged many movements to gain rights for the black community of America. One of these campaigns was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott started
After a number of successes he moved his goals to the North but soon discovered that the young and angry blacks cared little for his preaching and even less for his non-violent policies (Seattle Times). His failure in the North was one of the reasons he moved his cause to the war in Vietnam. Soon enough King headed many anti-war groups and laid the groundwork for what would be known as the Poor People 's Campaign. From King 's viewpoint the main domestic issue that was directly related with the war was poverty. He began planning his largest campaign ever including large non-violent "camp-ins", national boycotts and a massive march on Washington D.C. Before his plans could be set into motion, King left for Memphis, Tennessee to support a sanitation worker strike. It was during this campaign that King was shot in the neck by a rifle bullet. He died a few hours later in a Memphis Hospital. Even after he had succeeded in gaining rights blacks had not even dreamed of King had not been satisfied. He had the courage to want better for every man and woman of every race. His Poor People 's campaign made King a symbol of inspiration and courage for every