Martin Luther King Model Of Civil Disobedience

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Georgia on the 15th January 1929 and died in 1968 in Memphis (Tenessee).The "MAN" that i'm presenting you now has become an icon of America especially Black Americans and for many people of the world in search of liberty and progress.
Around 1950, the Blacks brutally closed the door of submission and enslavement. The struggle consisted of a non-violent resistance while invading the streets of the South to demand Blacks as American citizens and simply, as human beings by the abolition of segregation from which the Blacks suffered. The simple act of marching in the streets was equal to the shaking of the roots of the status quo. Boycotts of buses in Montgomery, manifestations at Birmingham, the citadel of segregation,
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Rage approaches amongst the Blacks and the pauper of our society. They live in tragic conditions because of the terrible economic injustice that now confines them as "sub-class". In the entire world, those without inheritance lose their blood because of deep social wounds and economical wounds.
The civic disobedience is an adapted strategy to change the society, it is so efficient as the ambulance with alarm at full volume. Martin was the apostle of non-violence in America. His strength and inspiration come from a long journey.
First his family tree: King was born in 1928 in Atlanta in Georgia. He is the son and grandson of pastors who preached the Word and sang the gospel to educate the nation. At the age of 18 he became a pastor in Pensyvanie after his diploma of theology, then at Boston University. He marries Coretta Scoth in 1953 and will have 4 children. Now in his school career: at the age of 26, he received his Phd in Boston university. He studied Mahatma Gandhi and the philosophy of non-violence. We will never fail to cite Henri David Thoreau as the big master who has influenced King and Gandhi. Everything is based on the morality which pushes us to respect human rights. He said " Every person has the right to disobey the unfair laws, for that, you must impose a discipline, and prepare yourself"A receiver of the Nobel peace price and several honours over the entire
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The English police of Heatway airport arrested him with a fake Canadian passport in the name of Ramon George Sneyd. He was quickly extraded in Tennessee where he has been accused of the murder of Martin Luther king. He has been condemned for 99 years of jail, a condemnation which will be judged unfair for many. Because a few years later, Dexter Scott, King's son met James Ray in prison and he ( James) swore that he never killed King. So it was necessary that he should be judged again in 1999 whereas they found him death in his

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