Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King's Speech

Furthermore, Martin Luther Kings religious actions and passive clever tactics helped him become popular and noticed. In December 1, 1955,Martin Luther King was awarded to become president and lead a boycott of bus transportation in effort to stop the black and white segregation happening in the buses. In his first speech as the group's president, King declared, "[they had] no alternative but to protest. For years [they] have shown patience. We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we liked the way we were being treated. But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice."(……source……). Martin Luther King fresh and skillful rhetoric put a new energy into
His effort in this victory sparked a role for Martin Luther King. In January 1957, Martin Luther King helped find the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches. Martin used was to use the SCLC to organize events, protests, and recruit more members efficiently. King's participation in the organization gave him a base of operation throughout the South, as well as a national platform. In February 1958, the SCLC sponsored more than 20 mass meetings to register black voters in the South. These opportunities that he helped make, ultimately made him popular in the black community. One of his mentors was Gandhi, while on his trip in visiting Gandhi's birthplace in India he was affected deeply. He became more committed to America's civil rights struggle increased and used Gandhi’s style of recruiting more supporters, African-American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who had studied Gandhi's teachings, became one of King's associates and counseled him to dedicate himself to the principles of non-violence. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged students to continue to use nonviolent methods during their