Impact Of Martin Luther King Jr

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Martin Luther King, Jr played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. He once said the real struggle between justice and injustice “between the forces of light and the forces of darkness” If there was a victory, “and there will be a victory” it would be a victory for justice and a defeat of injustice; It will be a victory for goodness in its long struggle with the forces of evil”. He fought for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and victims of injustice through peaceful protest. King led marches for black rights, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were successfully enacted into the law of the United States paving way for