Martin Luther King's Objectification Of Civil Rights For Minority Citizens

It depends on perspective to be able to decide if the civil rights movement really succeeded, from one perspective, you see that the movement succeeded in gaining rights for the minority citizens because today black and whites have the same legal rights while on the other hand, others think that it really didn’t succeed as we see that blacks and whites don’t get along perfectly well today. The civil rights movement was successful at gaining rights for minority citizens’ because of the organizing of peaceful protests, freedom rides, sit-ins, marches and also because of civil disobedience/nonviolent resistance by several outspoken leaders. Dr. King starts from having a peaceful set out against racism. The excerpts by Martin

Martin Luther King Jr., is known as one of the most successful civil rights activist and he is known for his nonviolence resistance. The excerpt by Dr. King when he speaks at the civil rights March on Washington in 1963 shows him pleading for America to come together as a whole, where everyone can be great and comfortable in their own skin. Martin was different from other civil rights leaders like Malcolm X because of his believe in peaceful protests. Although they were fighting for the same acts, they had different methods. Martin led peaceful marches and nonviolent civil resistance. Another great leader is Malcolm X who believed in the use of violence to get what you want and as seen in Malcolm X’s excerpt, Black Nationalism. Malcolm wanted black people to have their own national identity, he wanted them to control their community and be their own leader and he thought he could achieve this by using violence when necessary. Another significant leader was Thurgood Marshall best known for his victory in arguing the case Brown v Board of Education of Topeka which ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. The excerpt by Earl Warren shows that this case overturned Plessy v Ferguson decision of “separate but equal”. Thurgood Marshall differed from leaders like Martin because he didn’t believe in civil disobedience, he believed that you have to legally fight to change a law, not just outrightly disobey it. Last but not the least, Stokely Carmichael who was in favor of all things Black power as seen in the excerpt by him. At first, he joined all nonviolence acts to fight for civil rights but as time went on, he changed drastically. He differs from Martin Luther king Jr. because he lost faith in nonviolence because he felt like it was going to slow and not really working out the way they wanted. He wanted to show