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Martin Luther King Jr. And The Civil Rights Movement

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Martin Luther King, Jr. became the main leader in the Civil Rights Movement to end racial segregation and discrimination in America during the 1950s and 1960s and a leading spokesperson for nonviolent methods of achieving social change. His persuasiveness as a speaker and his personal charisma, combined with a deep-rooted determination to establish equality among all races despite personal risk won him a world-wide following. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was selected by Time magazine as its Man of the Year. His “I Have a Dream” speech, which is now considered to be among the great speeches of American history, is often quoted. His thrive drive for civil rights, however, made him the target of conservative segregationists …show more content…

and Alberta Williams Kings. His father was a Religious minister and an early figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. His mother worked in the church along with his father and played a significant role in the affairs of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. A 1934 trip to Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin, made the elder King changed his and his son 's names. He chose to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther. Martin King Jr. had Irish ancestry, through his parental great-grandfather, as well as African …show more content…

The group was created to utilize the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct nonviolent protests in the service of civil rights reform. The SCLC 's 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, was the first time King addressed a national audience.
King served as honorary president for the group, "Gandhi Society for Human Rights". Displeased with the speed of President Kennedy 's addressing the issue of segregation, King and the Gandhi Society formed a document in 1962, calling on the President to follow in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln and use an Executive Order to deliver a blow for Civil Rights as a kind of Second Emancipation Proclamation. However, Kennedy did not execute the order.
During this time King was threaten a lot to discontinue this association. His telephone was tapped, during the fall of 1963. The FBI wiretap King and other SCLC

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