Throughout the decades during the civil rights movement there have been many protests where people would resist the higher power. They would resist because the higher power would create laws that denied basic human rights to blacks leading all the way back to slavery. Martin Luther King Jr. a prominent leader in the movement would coordinate boycotts and marches. He resisted in multiple ways, which would lead to long term and immediate affects including death and sever injuries, but though all that Martin Luther King Jr. would show resilience and courage no matter how many threats and violent acts upon him he would receive. During the civil rights movement Jim Crow laws prohibited African-Americans to vote, which outraged blacks especially