Let My People Go Analysis

“The struggle for freedom forms one long front crossing oceans and mountains. The brotherhood of man is not confined within a narrow, limited circle of select people. It is felt everywhere in the world, it is an international sentiment of surpassing strength and because this is true when men of good will finally unite they will be invincible.” This was declared in 1965 by no one other than the well-known social activist, Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech ‘Let my people go’ which took place in New York on Human Rights Day. Born in 1929, Martin Luther King had a huge influence in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s to 1968 (the day he got shot). His priority was to seek for equality for African Americans, the needy and those that suffered with injustice through a nonviolent protest, something that resembles another leader had done: Mahatma Gandhi. Some crucial events took place as a result of his actions. For instance, there was the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington which marked people’s lives with new regulations,a including, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and …show more content…
It’s also important to add that he became one of the most targeted people for the upper-high level white community as they put his family home on fire the following month. As a result of the boycott’s success, the social activist and his associates established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, and the organization’s goal was to reach full equality for African Americans in an orderly, nonviolent way. Their motto was, “Not one hair of one head of one person should be harmed.” He would be part of this affluential organization for the rest of his