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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The sixties brought incredible change. Things began to penetrate during the previous decade‚ culturally‚ only to explode during the Vietnam War. At the same time‚ technical improvements changed how people lived while music changed how people thought. The Cold War continued to wage at this point. Dwight Eisenhower became the first presidential candidate to successfully use the television medium to campaign. In 1960‚ Kennedy perfected the television medium. The Kennedy Campaign knew how to use the
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Civil disobedience is one of the most emotional‚ moving‚ and‚ powerful acts that can come from a group of individuals. Peaceful resistance is one of the only things the majority of people have to exercise their freedom and their want for a just society. Civil disobedience gives the invisible people‚ a voice‚ and a way to be heard in a sea of perceived unjust laws. Peaceful resistance is a refreshing approach to rebellion; it defies the aesthetic of rebellion but maintains its core values. People
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successes that Dr. King achieves throughout his work for Civil Rights. The beginning of Dr. King’s nonviolent civil rights movements started in Montgomery‚ Alabama when Rosa Parks refused to move for a white person‚ violating city’s transportation rules. After Parks was convicted Dr. King‚ who was 26 at the time‚ was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). “For 381 days‚ thousands of blacks walked to work‚ some as many as 12 miles a day‚ rather than continue to submit
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s Once upon a horrible time‚ the United States was a segregated country in which blacks were considered some sort of subspecies. Although the civil war addressed segregation it didn’t enforce it. While black and white citizens were becoming a group of equals in the north‚ the story was much different in the segregated south. Black citizens in the south still faced unequal treatment‚ wages‚ and were often persecuted by everyone from store workers to
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This respectable person was Rosa Parks‚ once she was arrested they began the bus boycott. Following that year in 1956 the mayor attempted to announce a policy called the “get though” policy and two days later Martin Luther King was arrested. By March of 1956 the bus station had lost over a million dollars because the blacks had boycotted it. In Georgia the first big campaign to desegregate was in 1961 and did not end until 1963. During this time there were over a thousand people arrested and there
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How far has the importance of Martin Luther King’s role in the Civil Rights movement been exaggerated? In the 1950s and 60s‚ black Americans were victim to severe and brutal racist discrimination‚ particularly in the southern states‚ where segregation was “de Jure” ( by law)‚ the ‘Jim-Crow’ laws made sure that everyday facilities such as buses‚ parks and schools were segregated‚ with different services for black and white people and where black people were violently threatened to prevent them
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What would the Civil Rights Movement be without its eminent leaders? Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Malcolm X‚ and The Black Panthers achieved many important goals that affected the Civil Rights Movement tremendously. Without them‚ this movement wouldn’t be as triumphant due to the fact it took place during the vietnam war. Theses leaders were also able to overcome the difficulty the draft proposed to blacks. The Civil Rights Movement is one of the most influential movements in American history. However
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Martin Luther King III‚ Dexter Scott‚ and Bernice. Martin became pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery‚ Alabama. When he was only 25 years old‚ Martin received his Ph.D. Martin Luther King Jr. decided it was his turn to action in society. He didn’t want his children to live in a world where they weren’t treated fairly based on the color of their skin. In Montgomery a woman named Rosa Parks did not give her seat up for a white man on a bus. She was arrested and fined a tremendous
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military 1948 - Truman commissioned report ‘To Secure these Rights’ 1947 with recommendations for improved civil rights - Generally Truman helped to awaken USA’s conscience to civil rights issues • Transport - Montgomery Bus Boycott (explain why this was successful) - Browder v Gayle 1956 (court case which confirmed that segregation on Montgomey buses was illegal) Lack of progress • Limits to progress in education and continued segregation
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