Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. He was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws (laws that prevented African Americans from entering certain places, such as restaurants, hotels, and public schools). He also did all he could to make people realize that “all men are created equal.” He led many powerful movements to achieve his objective to make African Americans have a fair life where they lived.
In Montgomery, Alabama, King led a boycott against city buses that refused to let blacks sit in the front seats of the bus. The protest gained followers rapidly, and it led to a citywide boycott of the bus system until the rules were changed; ultimately, after King and his followers were sent to jail, the boycott did succeed, and the unfair, racist law allowing the segregation aboard the buses was changed. Another one to be recognized is his “I Have a Dream “
In 1963, King and other leaders of the civil rights movement organized a huge march for equal rights in Washington, DC. With a massive crowd of over 200,000 followers, the march was protesting racial discrimination in employment, racial separatism in schools, and they demanded minimum wage for all workers. It was the largest gathering in Washington, DC’s history, and the site of King’s most famous speech, “I Have a Dream.” As a result of the march and the speech, the citizens of the nation began to put growing pressure on the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, encouraging the president to push for civil rights laws to pass through Congress and become recognized on a national level. That was not an end for him and his work , In the spring of 1965, King’s elevated profile drew international attention to the violence that erupted between white supremacist and peaceful demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, where the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had organized a voter registration campaign.This was captured on tv the brutal scene of many protesters getting beaten and gassed it was horrible to watch and this inspired supporters from across the country to gather in Alabama and take part in the Selma to Montgomery march led by King and supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who sent in federal troops to keep the peace.That August, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed the right to vote first awarded by the 15th Amendment To all African Americans
Martin Luther King Jr.’s life had a big impact on race relations in the United States. Years after his death, he is the most widely known African-American leader of his era. His life and work have been honored with a national holiday, schools and public buildings named after him, and a memorial on Independence Mall in Washington, D.C. But his life remains controversial as well.
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