During decades Blacks were considered as slaves and servants for white people, they have been segregated, marginalized and humiliated because of the color of their skin.
The explosion came on December 1955, when a black woman called Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man and was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. The Local Civil Rights Leaders were hoping for such opportunity to resist and call for action with the help of a young Baptist minister called Dr Martin Luther King who was after elected as the president of the Local NAACP. They led the black boycott of buses in 1955-1956 which was successful than anyone hoped so they gained a major victory in 1956 when the supreme court decision was that of banning segregated buses. This victory was one of the numerous achievements by Luther King.
It is obvious that Martin Luther King played a major role in Civil Right Movement however there are people who think …show more content…
This event provoked national outrage but ends with a Voting Right Act in 1965.
II. Martin Luther King’s others aims and goals:
Some years later Martin Luther King left Montgomery to his home Atlanta where he became associate pastor along with his father, his work undone. It is true that the buses were integrated but the schools were not, neither the parks nor the other public facilities.
In 1965, King expressed his doubts about the United States' role in the Vietnam War and delivered a speech titled "Beyond Vietnam", where he insists that the U.S. was in Vietnam to occupy it and not help it.
This shows that King’s interests, however, widened from civil rights to include criticism of the Vietnam War and a deeper concern over