Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson were two exceptional men who made this country superior in the idea of desegregation. King refrained from abandoning his neighbors in the reality of injustice. King conducted marches from place to place to exude nonviolent protests, determined to abolish the unjust approach towards African Americans. President Johnson would soon realize that the parade of African Americans would not relinquish their goal until the head of state put forth his input and supported them, allowing them to register to vote. With President Johnson’s speech, he recognizes to the public how unjust African Americans were being treated and that the racial actions at the time should have been put to an end.

King and Malcolm X had both wanted a better life for their race, however, what divided their efforts towards a common goal was their way to get there. Dr. King promoted a world with integration, a place where all races coexisted peacefully and treated each other amicably. MLK was very surprisingly realistic about segregation, claiming African Americans had “come a long, long way” but had “a long, long way to go” towards integration. He was of the opinion that through hard work and persistence, one day blacks and whites would regard each others as equals. His fairly idealistic world directly counteracted Malcolm X’s clause of segregation in his policy of Black Nationalism.

With them, nothing was “settled” that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were “final:” not slavery and oppression.” he's saying that although the Founding Fathers were peace men but they wanted to take action, they wanted a revolution in where they tried to make things right. I believe that his speech made the wake up and realize that they needed to take action right away and stop slavery because white and black people are no different from each

The book challenges Americans and how they treat American Values. The book exposed the truth of the white race and how they treated the black race. Throughout the novel white Americans did not value equality or progress and change. In Black Like Me whites did not believe in having a society the ideally treats everyone equally. When John Howard Griffin gets a ride from a white hunter, he tells him “I’ll tell you how it is here.

Not only was this speech the most remembered speech of the day, it was also the most influential. He says: “In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred” (“I Have a Dream”). This quote is significant because he is stating that he does not want violence. Many African Americans wanted to rebel against slaveholders and use force to earn their freedom, but Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to work things out

Fannie Lou Hamer wanted equal voting rights for African Americans because she believed they should have the same rights as whites. James Baldwin lived through the hardships and hatred in this time and wanted his nephew to be strong and aware of how he could push through. Each of these people were selfless in the manner and longed for change in the society as a whole. The texts of these people are closely related, not in content, but the meaning behind them. The Civil Rights Movement came into action because of injustice and unfair treatment.

His peacefulness taught others to fight (not physically) for what was right and tranquility is the answer. This was caused by his following his role model, Mahatma Gandhi. He describes Gandhi as “the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.” This led to long-lasting effects. If King didn’t commit to civil rights, our modern society would be drastically different. Malcolm X was not peaceful like Martin Luther King, Jr.

While African Americans had been in government before, it was a small number and it was almost all white. Malcolm X blamed the government, the mostly white government, for the lack of equality endured by African Americans. He complained that the white politicians did not care about African Americans. King’s complaint regards the white moderate; the white moderates claim allegiance to his cause, but do not actually help the cause. The white moderates claim that African Americans deserve equality, but King is approaching the problem the wrong way, even though they are not fighting back, their demonstrations are causing violence.

It was the realization that everything that they had been conditioned to think or react was in fact just a shield to control the what was the “inferior” race in their eyes. Many white Southerners tried to resist the change, claiming they were only helping the black population or keeping balance by “protecting” them from what radical thinking could spring from. Thankfully later on in the century, this racist mindset was brought to light and black civil rights activists became more prominent figures as they fought for equal opportunities. A battle that had arguably happened much later than it should have, set off by the works and efforts of those like Griffin, who went against the flow of societal norms in risky experiments. So while there were flaws and mistakes in John Griffin’s experiment in Black Like Me, that same experiment helped bring the mindset of many inside and even outside of the South into a better, less deprived view of the world around them with some resistance.

Also, the Civil Rights granted African Americans more legal rights. The Civil Rights succeeded by giving everybody the same chance to all be equal. There was a lot of success and the Civil Rights changed the world forever, but there is always room for improvement. There are still racist people in the world that will never stop being racist for a reason we will never know. People can make the world better by just getting over the past and learn to accept each other and treat each other

That alone should have changed the world’s outlook on everything. Owens expected to have at least a telegram from FDR and he didnt even get that so his views were probably that he expected something to change as well but when it didn’t he didn’t dwell and become bitter, He accepted it for what it was and did not let it rule his life. He might argue that he used the games to show that blacks are not inferior to whites. He used it for the better good of the world. He wanted society 's view to change on the way they perceived black athletes.

Likewise, the American founding fathers believed that freedom would lead to a better future for America so they challenged the colonists to make positive changes. In order to attain freedom, one must take action and make changes in the present. Freedom can only occur by standing up to the opposition and sacrificing one’s life. In the “Letter From Birmingham City Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., King fought against segregation through nonviolence. This was King’s most profound defense of nonviolent program for Civil Rights movement in the United States.

Martin Luther King Jr. … had a dream, he wanted racial equality, and wanted every person to have the same rights, we should all be treated as equals. Martin Luther King, Jr., had white and black followers standing up with him. Many people respected his views and faith and passion. The Civil Right Movement had many struggles over its period of time. Eventually the Civil Rights Movement reached it goals and provided racial equality for all people, no matter their skin color.

He also believed that slavery was morally wrong, for blacks and for whites, but didn’t want it to be abolished in his life time. This is where Jefferson’s hypocritical features peak through. Jefferson believed whole heartedly that blacks were an inferior race that did not have the intellectual capacity to live as equals along side white men. He believed that blacks succumbed too easily to their physical desires, and had no self control. While he believed that Native Americans had the mental capacity to become equal to whites, they just had to conform to white man ways and they could live peacefully and become one race through interracial marriages.

Dr.King influence the government to pass the law that will end segregation and have civil rights no matter the skin color, race, and religion. In my personal opinion Dr.King gave the people a voice, he was a brave man because not many people dare to do what he did, Other examples were Nelson Mandela, Rosa parks, and Malcolm x. I also belive that he will