talent that would prove useful in his future leadership activities. Outline: 1) King’s leadership was forceful and appealed to all groups through nonviolent protest A) Supported by president Democratic John F. Kennedy B) Accepted the post of president of the Montgomery Improvement Association‚ which was formed to coordinate a boycott of Montgomery’s buses C) Founding president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference formed to spread civil rights activities
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Questions Chapter 13: Protest Makes a Civil Rights Revolution Review Questions 1. What was the role of Ella Baker (1903-1986) with regard to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)? Why is this important? 2. How was Freedom Summer of 1964 different from earlier southern civil rights struggles of the 1960s? 3. What were the political and racial beliefs of Malcolm X/El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (1925-1965) when he was assassinated
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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
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Marcella Patton November 25‚ 2013 Soc.9a.m “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. King spent eight days in his cell. During that time he composed his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." The letter was ostensibly conceived in response to a letter that had recently run in a local newspaper‚ which had claimed that the protests were "unwise and untimely"; however‚ King also quite deliberately wrote his letter for a national audience. The letter reveals King’s strength as a rhetorician
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African-Americans led a campaign‚ known as the civil rights movement‚ to gain the freedoms and rights they had been unjustly denied. One of the leaders of the movement was Martin Luther King Jr.‚ a Georgian minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He traveled the nation to help lead nonviolent protests and fight discrimination. King’s toughest challenge came in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ where the movement was forcefully put down by the local government. In April 1963‚ King was
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Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very influential man in American society. His leadership in the civil rights movement helped change the racially separated world that once lived in America. An Indian leader‚ Mohandas Gandhi‚ influenced his philosophy of nonviolence. King never used violence in his fight for equality‚ even when violence was used upon him. This got him and all the black Americans the rights‚ freedoms and equality they deserved. In present day America he is one
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to conflicts between individuals and not racial groups or nations. While at the seminar‚ King also read about Gandhi and his teachings. King was struck by the concept of satyagraha‚ which means truth-force or love-force. He realized that "the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.” King‚
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privilege‚ but because he is well aware of the subject. Martin Luther King says‚ I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference‚ an organization operating in every southern state‚ with headquarters in Atlanta‚ Georgia. We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South‚ and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently‚ we share staff‚ educational‚ and financial resources with our affiliates.(798) The purpose
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King mentions that‚ “I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference‚ an organization operating in every southern state‚ with headquarters in Atlanta‚ Georgia” (King 309). Kind establishes his position as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to show his credibility to a greater extent. This demonstrates that he has high power and allegiance to a noteworthy Christian organization. King shows his position in hopes that the clergymen can
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Birmingham Jail Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ a civil rights leader‚ was put into jail after being part of the Birmingham campaign in April 1963. He was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was asked by an Alabama group to come to Birmingham. He and members of his organization joined The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and organized non-violent protests against racial segregation. Because of these nonviolent protests‚ many of his followers were put into jail.
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