Martin Luther King Jr Contribution To The Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the charismatic leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The nonviolent protests and speeches addressing America’s racial injustices, with “I Have a Dream” being his most memorable, led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His strong leadership and unprecedented power of speech gave people the faith and motivation to keep working peacefully even when others did not. The historical importance of Martin Luther King, Jr., goes beyond his work in the Civil Rights Movement, as important as that was. He used charisma as a tool for mobilizing black communities, but he always used it in the context of other forms of intellectual and political leadership suited to a movement containing many strong