How Did Martin Luther King Impact Society

During 1954 to 1968, lower social status groups were treated unfairly and lived frustrated, racism, huger, and violence radiate the entire society. An outstanding hero—Martin Luther King Jr. who used to be a priest helped African-Americans and poor people made an effort to gain basic human rights after the Civil War. Although he only lived till thirty-nine years old, he was deeply influenced by Christianity and allusive the Bible in his notion and speeches. He was one of the most brilliant people in the history ,whose actions and talks still have effects in the U.S. today. One of the reasons that Martin Luther King caught people’s attention was his excellent skill of public speech. There was a magic power in his speeches. When he talked,
Others like grass-roots organizing and Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. King’s nonviolent civil disobedience had six notions. First, nonviolence was a way of life for courageous people. Second, nonviolence sought to win friendship and understanding. Third, nonviolence asked for overcome injustice not people. Fourth, nonviolence held that suffering could educated and transform. Fifth, nonviolence chose love instead of hate. Final, nonviolence believed that the universe was on the side of justice (“The King Philosophy”). Grass-roots movement was conflated with participatory democracy, they wanted to created a more equitable society. People connected the blacks communications to discuss about the integration, destress race relations, the consequences was conclusively successful. Static strategies such as Greensboro sit-ins of 1960, highlighted the racial issue in the South and increased tension. These four men, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr., and Joseph McNeil, inspired by King’s ideas, sit in the restaurant and does not left. Students from everywhere supported this act and imitated. As a result, although it got the reverberate, white shoppers were scared, and created threat for society and economics, which was hard to get people to agree to change their beliefs (“The Greensboro’s
does not only influenced African Americans in that turbulent era but also included the poor. He organized the “Poor People’s Campaign”, the purpose of this was that everyone should have the what they need to live. It was worth to talked about this activity seeing that it across gender, ethnic, skin color, people’s mind combined as one and declared their dissatisfaction. It failed ultimately because the white middle-class constituency of Civil Rights movement.This campaign did a subtle changes, more subsidization for children and school, more amount of given food stamps, and international organizations started to give attention on the poor. The consequences of food stamps gave a credit to activists who divulged the conditions of famine and farmers received government’s subsidy for not growing the food.(Wright 210) Further, the U.S. government also hired poor people to help the poor in order to reduced the number of poor. On the other hand, King impacted the needy by set up the Poor People’s