Martin Luther King Jr's Role In The Civil Rights Movement

The use of civil disobedience as a strategy in the civil rights movement was an excellent choice to use, during a turbulent and dangerous time of events in American history. Martin Luther King’s early adaption of Mohandas Gandhi’s tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience, was exactly what the civil rights movement needed at that time. King and other civil rights activists developed a strategy to oppose racial segregation by nonviolent means. They also made good use of the church to back up their movement; the church gave the movement legitimacy to their cause. Their efforts eventually bared fruit and they were able to gain momentum and overcome the in-differences that were happening in America during that time.
Martin L. King and other civil rights leaders adapted the use of these tactics in order to specifically dismantle, alienate and disfranchise the white south’s strangle hold on African American’s freedoms. They knew that if they were able to hold back and protest in a peaceful way, the white southerners would violently disrupt their protest and in turn, with the help of the media, show the
The student sit-ins led to the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which allowed a younger generation of civil rights activists to develop its own strategies to achieve racial equality. (1) They also planned “freedom rides” in order to peacefully go against the established Jim Crow laws, that at the time, segregated African and white Americans in inter-state public buses and facilities. And after numerous violent attacks on the group, their efforts assisted in the decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission to overturn the "Jim Crow laws”, finally allowing African Americans to equally enter facilities as their white counterparts.