greatest Black leader of the 20th century. His efforts to unite the oppressed and the free brought him many awards‚ including the Nobel Peace Prize. King’s vehicles of protest were the sit-ins‚ boycotts and marches. “We Shall Overcome” was his rallying cry and the cities of Selma and Montgomery‚ the battlegrounds where he fought for our rights. He showed a nation of 22‚000‚000 Blacks‚ why they could no longer remain buried under the shackles of oppression. As the Civil Rights Revolution’s‚ foremost
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about brutality. Bloody Sunday‚ protesting march from Selma Alabama to Montgomery Alabama for African American voting right‚ was a notorious historical event broadcasted in 1965 over radio and television as to where Freddie Gray‚ killed in police custody due to a broken neck‚ and Tamir Rice‚ shot by an officer while at the park swinging playing with a toy gun‚ were all over every social media site and news broadcast. As the march from Selma to
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Managerial Roles Interpersonal: Martin Luther King was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church‚ Member of executive committee of Montgomery NAACP‚ head of Montgomery Improvement Association and leader of Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He displayed his leadership skills by influencing and motivating the black population to start a nonviolent movement in Montgomery. He hence played the role of an effective Figurehead and a leader. Informational: King communicated the plans of action to the
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As a boy‚ John Lewis heard about the Montgomery Bus Boycott only a few miles away… the beginning of a Movement that he would become a leader within. In the 1960s‚ an eager college student who lived in an area that was very hostile to his race‚ John Lewis‚ became one of the most prominent Civil Rights leaders. While Lewis was growing up and becoming an adult in the harshness of the southern states of the United States of America‚ he realized the laws against his skin color‚ Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow
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The recent riots in Baltimore were the result of the people’s (mostly black communities) view/opinion that Freddie Gray was unjustly treated in the back of the police van after he was arrested and being transported to the Police station. Whether rioting was or was not the best approach by the people of Baltimore to address what was perceived as a gross injustice is debatable. History has taught us a tremendous amount about how to effectively respond to these sorts of situations. Specifically‚ the
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King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957‚ serving as its first president. With the SCLC‚ he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany‚ Georgia‚ and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham‚ Alabama.
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First Era The voting rights of African Americans has always been controversial‚ it also has a very rocky past. The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution‚ embraced in 1870‚ guaranteed the privilege to vote regardless of color‚ race or previous oppression. However‚ the amendment by itself did nothing to ensure minorities the right to vote. Reconstruction was beginning to implode as more and more rules being bent and broken without consequence. The nuisance of government-authorized anti-discrimination
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receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 1964. King’s struggle continued throughout the 1960s. Often‚ it seemed as though the pattern of progress was two steps forward and one step back. On March 7‚ 1965‚ a civil rights march‚ planned from Selma to Alabama’s capital in Montgomery‚ turned violent as police with nightsticks and tear gas met the demonstrators as they tried to cross the Edmond Pettus Bridge. King was not in the march‚ however the attack was televised showing horrifying images of marchers being
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Bloody Sunday was unintentional but strategically successful for the SCLC. On March 7‚ 1965‚ John Lewis led a group of nonviolent protesters on 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. However‚ when they reached the Edmund Puttus Bridge they encountered state troopers led by Sheriff Clark. After John Lewis asked to pray‚ the state troopers began to lumber towards the protesters and attack them with clubs and teargas. The images of the helpless protesters began to circulate throughout the nation and
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The people of the Civil Rights Movement are the people that I admire most. I admire them for their courage‚ their tenacity‚ patience‚ peacefulness and their relentless quest for equal treatment. From these individuals I learned that one person can make a difference‚ one person can start a revolution and make a change. From their leadership I have learned that you must stand up (or sit down) for what you believe to be right. At the forefront of this movement was Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. What I
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