How Did Martin Luther King Impact The Civil Rights Movement
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Black people were suffering in almost silence until around 1955, when Dr Martin Luther King Jr, a Baptist Minister, began non-violent protests Martin Luther King Jr came from a line of Baptist ministers and was his father who thought that segregation was against GOD, some influence came from Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Benjamin Mays, the president of Morehouse college King met his wife, Coretta Scott, at Boston university, after college, he started his civil rights protests with the Montgomery bus boycott, becomes chairman of the SCLC, meets with president Eisenhower, takes a month long trip to Gandhi’s birthplace in India, writes his “letter from a Birmingham jail”, and after the March on Washington delivers his “I have a dream” On April 4TH, 1968 Dr Martin Luther King is assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. Used nonviolent methods influenced in part by Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr’s nonviolent acts consisted of sit-ins, boycotts, marches and speeches
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Martin Luther King Jr’s dream of equality could have caused change by making people rethink the laws and rights that were set and given in the beginning of the country's existence an example, from the Bill of Rights, of Anti-segregated America’s beginning laws is, …it should not tell people they can get together to protest peacefully… Another example of Anti-segregation could be It should not tell people they can get together to protest peacefully…
Martin Luther King Jr’s dream of equality also could have caused change by the proof he gave that change is possible even without violence An example of the change is the fact that civil rights act was passed another important example and large influence on King was Gandhi's methods of
nonviolence
Martin Luther King Jr’s dream of equality also caused change by changing the already existing law One way his dream changed the law was ratifying the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which let the federal level of law rise over the state level in the prosecution of murderers of civil rights activists
Martin Luther King Jr was influenced in part by Gandhi who used nonviolent methods to fight segregation. Martin Luther King Jr’s nonviolent acts consisted of sit-ins, boycotts, marches, speeches, etc. Martin Luther King Jr's dream of equality also could have caused change by the proof he gave that change is possible even without violence. An example of the change is the fact that civil rights act was passed. Martin Luther King Jr. showed that all men are created equal and should be treated as such.
Martin Luther King Jr’s dream of equality could have caused change by making people rethink the laws and rights that were set and given in the beginning of the country's existence an example, from the Bill of Rights, of Anti-segregated America’s beginning laws is, …it should not tell people they can get together to protest peacefully… Another example of Anti-segregation could be It should not tell people they can get together to protest peacefully…
Martin Luther King Jr’s dream of equality also could have caused change by the proof he gave that change is possible even without violence An example of the change is the fact that civil rights act was passed another important example and large influence on King was Gandhi's methods of
nonviolence
Martin Luther King Jr’s dream of equality also caused change by changing the already existing law One way his dream changed the law was ratifying the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which let the federal level of law rise over the state level in the prosecution of murderers of civil rights activists
Martin Luther King Jr was influenced in part by Gandhi who used nonviolent methods to fight segregation. Martin Luther King Jr’s nonviolent acts consisted of sit-ins, boycotts, marches, speeches, etc. Martin Luther King Jr's dream of equality also could have caused change by the proof he gave that change is possible even without violence. An example of the change is the fact that civil rights act was passed. Martin Luther King Jr. showed that all men are created equal and should be treated as such.