Martin Luther King And The Civil Rights Movement

In 1955 the Civil Rights Movement officially began when an African American by the name of Rosa Parks took Claudette Colvin’s brave refusal to reject segregation to the light. The Civil Rights Movement took extreme amount of time. Martin Luther King was the president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference and he was a big part of why this Civil Rights Movement succeeded. Martin Luther King was considered the leader of this movement and he used respective tactics to do so. He traveled across the country delivering nonviolent protests and speeches that set the tone for the political rights movement to vanquish racial discrimination against African Americans. He was a very intelligent leader, a man of god and the right person at the right time. The Civil Rights Movement had a goal to end marginalized discrimination based off the color of people's skin. With the help of the black community, media and government the movement was the United States Largest Civil success of the 1900s. Martin Luther King had another plan. The Poor People’s Campaign was the next success story in Martin Luther King’s mind. He lead the movement at the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference until he passed was assassinated in April of 1968. This was one reason that the Poor People’s

The Civil Right Movement was a success because the government had to keep it from failure. At the time of this movement was the Cold War with Russia. With the massive increase of globalization of media, word could get out a lot easier. The democratic, non-racist, United States of America couldn’t be seen as the next group of Nazis. This campaign was at the perfect time. African Americans could make this movement and there couldn’t be signs of violent revolt, complete racial separation on media. The Poor People’s Campaign couldn’t have the same kind of backup, not by the group of people in focus and it wasn’t a threat in