How Did Martin Luther King Affect The World

No matter what people do, the world will continue to orbit; however, people should be able to affect the world in a way that other people stop and remember the hurdles that have been jumped to get where they are. In those moments of tribute, the world has stopped for a brief second to remind us to continue moving forward. Peaceful protests are a way of doing that which was aforementioned. Martin Luther King Jr. showed many people through his non-violent approach that sometimes the most painful bullet is the bullet that is never shot. Before Martin Luther King, Jr. took his peaceful stand, African Americans across the United States were being mistreated. They were beaten. They were arrested. They were neglected. They were all treated wrongly because of the melanin in their skin. They knew they were being treated wrong, and once an innocent person had been convicted, they were ready for war. Rosa Parks started this chain of events known as the Civil Rights Movement, and once it reached Martin Luther King, he was ready to stand up for the African-American community. He called for a "nonviolent campaign" in which he called for evidence of wrongdoings, negotiation for those wrongdoings, self-assessing, and then direct action. …show more content…
There were many challenges that were thrown at them, such as the Temple Bombing, the freedom ride attacks (in which people were riding the bus integrated and people would attack the buses), the Birmingham Bombing, and many more; however, no matter how down they felt--they kept their peace, and kept moving forward with the campaign. They had every right in the world to give up and begin fighting those who had attacked them, but they didn't. That is the reason they were able to gain so much from this