PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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creating the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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leader of the civil rights movement and advocator of nonviolent protests
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creating the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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being involved with the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision
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Detailed explanation-1: -King, played a pivotal leadership role in organizing the protest. His arrest and imprisonment as the boycott’s leader propelled King onto the national stage as a lead figure in the civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -What did Martin Luther King do? He lead multiple protests and helped the African Americans get so many rights that they did not have. What ways did Martin Luther King protest? He used peaceful protests to get his point across.
Detailed explanation-3: -King believed that the age-old tradition of hating one’s opponents was not only immoral, but bad strategy which perpetuated the cycle of revenge and retaliation. Only nonviolence, he believed, had the power to break the cycle of retributive violence and create lasting peace through reconciliation.