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Martin Luther King, Jr. STRIVING AGAINST SLAVERY It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. ... King’s Challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination in 1968, King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. ... In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. ... They were discriminated against solely in the basis of their skin color. ... Before King and his movement, a tired and thoroughly respectable Negro seamstress like Rosa Parks could be thrown into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus so a white man could sit down. ... The movement that King led swept all that away. ... And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands upon thousands of courageous men and women, King was its culmination. ... To begin with, King was a preacher who spoke in biblical cadences ideally suited to leading a stride toward freedom that found its inspiration in the Old Testament story of the Israelites and the New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ. Being a minister not only put King in touch with the spirit of the black masses but also gave him a base within the black church, then and now the strongest and most independent of black institutions. ... 50,000 blacks with Martin Luther King Jr., as their leader, had won out against injustice. ... From this time forward, there was no turning back for King. ... A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. The aim of SCLC was to build upon the success of the Montgomery bus boycott; for the next eleven years it became the vehicle through which King mobilized black southerners to protest against segregation and discrimination. ... Cartwright, By protesting in a spirit of nonviolence, King insisted, and by demonstrating a willingness to suffer without striking back, blacks would defeat racism while at the same time educating whites in the error of their ways and paving the way for interracial amity. King told that through the power of love, blacks would win the hearts and consciences of their oppressors. ... Wherever the freedom movement reached, King was there to give his people courage and spiritual guidance. ... As King set out to build his new organization, the SCLC, his aims were to expand his network of supporters, and to learn more about planning protests. King realized that the nonviolent boycott in Montgomery had occurred because of his own feelings that he should not attack or hate his enemies. ... Not surprisingly, King now turned to Rustin for training some of the SCLC members in protesting. ... Levison would become King’s closest white friend and “money man”. ... King’s network began to fall into place. With Levison and Bayard Rustin’s help, King and the SCLC decided to pressure President Eisenhower about voting-rights laws and the proposed Civil Rights Act. To put pressure on the administration, King, Rustin, and NAACP head Roy Wilkings planned a prayer pilgrimage to Washington, D. ... Still, King felt he needed to do even more to get his message out to more people. ... The end of Montgomery boycott had sparked hatred among whites that were against integration. ... However, King would not give up his fight to free blacks from discrimination. More than two years had passed since King’s success in Montgomery. ... King’s efforts to encourage the students’ protest were hindered when he became the subject of more harassment from white authorities. In May 1960, King became the first person in Alabama to be tried by the state government for criminal tax evasion. ... Putting that battle behind him, King searched for a way to become more directly involved in the protests for civil rights. On October 1960 King joined the students at a downtown lunch counter and, as expected, their protest landed them in jail. ... King was eager to work on civil-rights issues with the new president. ... When King and Abernathy returned to Albany for sentencing in July 1962, they initiated more nonviolent protests, and they went to jail two more times. |
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