However, while King's contribution was important he was only one of many individuals who helped promote Civil Rights in America. Some, like Rosa Parkes, Daisy Bates -- a journalist who became a significant force in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Arkansas and James Meridith -- the first African-American to enrol in the University of Mississippi, all made significant contributions, as did many others (Bryant 61)
King was also aided and influenced by other African-American leaders. For example, theologian, teacher and advocate of non-violence Howard Thurman certainly influenced King's views on non-violent protest (Thurman 254), as did Civil Rights campaigner Bayard Rustin, who would later go on to help organise the March on Washington in 1963 (De Leon 138)
Angered by what they saw as the slow progress of change some African-Americans turned towards a more militant doctrine. As such, groups like Black Panthers rose to prominence in the mid-1960's specifically to cater to those individuals more interested in self-protection than non-violence (Harris 162-173)
135). Upon returning to the United States King encouraged the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), of which he had been a founding member two years previous, to keep non-violence as official policy (Marable 391)
As such, groups like Black Panthers rose to prominence in the mid-1960's specifically to cater to those individuals more interested in self-protection than non-violence (Harris 162-173). Others such as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam took a more extremist view claiming that African-Americans should not be aiming for equality; rather they should be looking at complete separation from White America (Lomax, 172)
As one white protester replied when asked why he was participating in a 'sit-in', "People have asked me why northerners, especially white people & #8230; take an active part in an issue which doesn't concern them. My answer is that injustice anywhere is everybody's concern" (Williams 129-132)
Firstly, as predicted by King, it garnished considerable media attention. The plight of African-Americans was broadcast almost nightly on television and images of beatings and violence helped garnish support for the cause (Wilson 47)
King was also aided and influenced by other African-American leaders. For example, theologian, teacher and advocate of non-violence Howard Thurman certainly influenced King's views on non-violent protest (Thurman 254), as did Civil Rights campaigner Bayard Rustin, who would later go on to help organise the March on Washington in 1963 (De Leon 138)
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1964, and when he was assassinated in the year 1968, the whole world lost a great leader and a great person when he died. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
nor need anyone resort to violence in order to right a wrong." (Words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Well known examples of the use of a non-violence approach by great leaders are Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947. Cesar Chavez campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California (Burstein and Shek, 2005)
Martin Luther King Jr. successfully crafted his counter argument by first directly addressing his audience, the clergymen, and then using logos, pathos, and ethos to disprove his opponent's statements and present his own viewpoint (Jones, 2008)
It is obvious that there is substantial debate about the exact meaning of nonviolence. For some, nonviolent feats are an expedient technique for dealing with conflict or bringing about social change; for others, nonviolence is a moral imperative or even a way of life (Weber and Burrowes, n
He was, however, a man who went through many different phases in his life and towards the last years of his life toned down his message of violent confrontation with the white men and denounced the racist teachings of his former associates -- the Black Muslims. (Finkelman, 2002) During the decade between the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties Martin Luther King Jr
He believed that under their skins the black and white people were the same and struggled most of his life to remove the barriers of segregation created by men of bigotry. (Norrell, 2002)
I could put myself in a position where I could show results." (Borgue) If Carloyn did write this speech herself, it still does not alter the fact that it has many racist undertones perceptible to an alert listener
foreign policy during the Cold War who encouraged conscientious objection to military service -- had said on the matter." (Husseini) in 1967, King did indeed weigh in on precisely the same issues Clinton deals with here, saying quite the opposite of what Clinton seems to have expected
King had a dream that soon "little Black boys and girls and little White boys and girls, Jews and Gentiles, would walk together, play together in an atmosphere of brotherhood Williams 1996)." He hoped that there would no longer be a gap between the rich and poor, or Black and White, but that everyone would know equality and justice (Williams 1996)
On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, blacks and whites rode the buses as equals (Kallen, 48). Throughout these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, and he was personally abused, but he also became the leading black American leader (Bullard, 24)
S., as well as freedom rides where buses of blacks rode from state to go to "whites only" locations (deKay, 58)