Yazmin Espinoza
Mrs. Holloman
AVID
16, May 2016 Great Leader Research Paper
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s work and life were influenced by the fact that many African Americans in the South suffered from violence and from being treated as a second-class citizen. Segregation, sit-ins, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, and Jim Crow laws may have influenced the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights.
The landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, demonstrated that “ separate but equal” violated the 14th amendment of the United States of Constitution. As one of the thirteen parents of the Brown v. Board of Education case, filed a lawsuit on Topeka school board because their African American child was unable to attend
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African American were tired of the Jim Crow laws that made them sit in the back seat of a bus. So they organized to bus boycott. They would walk instead of riding the bus. While Fred caught the KKK attentions (Brimner 22). The Montgomery bus boycott ended the Jim Crow seating in Birmingham buses. Fred sent a telegram to Birmingham 's commissions when the Supreme Court order to desegregate the buses (Brimner 26,27). Many African Americans worked silently on the civil rights . Pacifist Bayard convinced King to lower down the violence with Montgomery bus boycott. Dr. King and Harry Belafonte encouraged others to support the civil rights movement (Brimner …show more content…
It was on April 16, 1963 that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham jail to respond the clergy request to stop demonstrating. Dr. King explains why African Americans patience has run out, since his clergy men kept telling him to be more patient and to use less problematic methods. “ Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt te stinging darts of segregation to day, ‘Wait’” (Kronenwetter 58). “... I can across your recent statement calling my present activities ‘unwise and untimely’ ...” ( King 85) King explains how there is injustice in Birmingham and that 's why he there. “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ( King 87). The protesters were focused on showing the cruelty of the Jim Crow Laws. Bull Conners, city police, attacked, bullied, and used attack dogs on calm and dignity