The Civil Rights Movement: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For many years America has justified the separation of people due to skin color, this was known as segregation. Eventually people began to stand up against this oppression, these actions and events will later be known as the civil rights movement, a movement that has spread all across america causing uprisings all over for the fight for desegregation. People such as Dr.Martin Luther King, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks and the students of Little Rock, known as Little Rock Nine are all major historical figures in the civil rights movement. The struggle to gain the rights that african americans now have was extremely difficult Civil rights activist faced mistreatments such as threats, violence and verbal abuse.
Civil rights activist went through
a long process of gaining equal rights. “Rome wasn’t built in day”(John Heywood) and neither did change for civil rights come over night.Most People recall the memory of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s however there has been people fighting for civil rights for early as 1919 and the movement hadn’t end till about the late 1960’s or the early 1970’s. These dates were pointed out to show that even though people such as Dr.Martin Luther King, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks and the students of Little Rock, known as Little Rock Nine are all major historical figures in the civil rights movement will be focused on in this particular paper it’s only fair to recognize that there were countless civil rights activist fighting for desegregation. Civil Rights activist formed a numerous amount of nonviolent protest, even though they were faced with hostility for doing so they continued to use nonviolence to gain their rights. These nonviolent tactics proved to be the most efficient this long battle against discrimination eventually led to the equality that we have today.
Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
is a commonly known name when it comes to the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. used his writing skills to write speeches which inspired many and promoted nonviolence. With his famously known speech “I Had A Dream” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spread the ideas of blacks and whites living together in unison. DLK continuously convinced others that nonviolence was the best way to gain equal rights . Being one of the leading advocates of bus boycott dlk and others were able to form peaceful protest that eventually gained there rights on buses. Dr.Martin luther king and others use non-violence which shown to have the outcome that all supporters of unsegregated buses wanted. Dr.Martin Luther king was a revolutionary and he fought for change and equal rights, stubborn and angered whites were unable to accept this and Went as far as murdering martin luther king. mlk's death caused the movement to lose mometum for quite sometime however eventually the movement began to pick up pace once again. This violence may have set back the movement but it failed to stop it
completely
Segregation went as far as to limiting African americans education. For many years it was illegal for blacks to learn and eventually blacks were allowed to learn but not as equals to whites, segregation made it clear that African americans weren't allowed to learn with whites and remained separate for a while. However eventually after many protest (insert law) was passed and african americans were able to attend school with whites. Little rock nine was the first to attend an newly unsegregated school. This seems like a big step however they were faced with Many threats however never were they to retaliate. These nine students never respond to violence with violence. Whites unwilling to change, eventually closed down the school in attempt to stop these students from attending school. However this did not stop these students from getting there education (find out what their jobs are from site)
The Civil rights movement was always responded with some form of violence, because of people's refusal to change, those un-supporters of the movement did everything in their power to keep segregation going strong which for a while they succeed being that segregation lasted for nearly over 60 years however non-violence ranged true and these unjust laws were stopped.
Protestors formed sit-ins, A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. Protestors that were simply sitting, were attacked and faced with violence. These violent actions did not undermine the movement but improved the awareness of the
movement.
Eugene "bull" Connor used police dogs and fire hoses against protesters, an act that remains infamous. This act helped bring forth the need for civil rights legislation to the president because there were more people learning about the unjust actions inflicted upon african americans and they began to support the movement. Non violent protest always seemed to end in chaos. Peaceful sit-ins turned into violent riots, civil rights activist where harmed by vicious attackers and left severely injured.