Martin Luther King III

Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because in the past peaceful resistance was used to show the public the injustice treatment that was being perpetrated by the law, or its citizens. During the Civil Rights Movement the use of non-force was wide spread around the nation, and in doing so they were able to demonstrate to the public the violence that was being done to the demonstrators. "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the…

When we think about the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the passage of the Civil Rights Act are usually the images that come to mind. Yet we tend to overlook is that this was only a chapter of a global movement. Gaines argues that one should consider international independence movements and racial conflicts to truly understand the development of the civil rights movement at home. “American Exceptionalism” is a term US leaders…

Andrew Inderhees Mrs. Falls Ethics Hour 3 MLK Analysis contest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr may have been one of the greatest leaders ever to exist in America, he enforced peaceful protests to promote equality throughout America, he also, eliminated the inequality that colored people faced day by day. To fully understand Dr. King’s legacy, you have to understand his significance during the American Civil Rights Movement. Civil war was coming toward America, which could have led our nation to go…

divided by color, white being treated as the supreme and colored being treated as the inferior, a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia named Michael Luther king jr., arose fighting for the civil rights and freedom for all Americans from racial discrimination (Martin Luther King biography 2014). He later changed his first name from Michael to Martin during his lifetime. King’s dream was to make America a colorblind nation (Cross, 438). Even after years passed for the United States’…

change a society, generation, and the world through strong peaceful protesting that presents a strong stand for justice and what is right. There are many in our history that have demonstrated and showed that peaceful resistance work, such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Muhammad Ali who were strong civil rights activist that proven that this resistant works. These leaders, along with others, fought for a cause that was needed to end racial segregation. It was the careful…

such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Dubois, Malcom X and many more that changed the way African Americans viewed themselves and paved the way for African Americans to live their lives up to their full potential. While, visiting the National King Memorial Park, I learned that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr advocated for civil rights and equality for blacks as well as was using nonviolent methods to change the world. I enjoyed going to the National King Memorial…

What Martin Luther King wanted the most was the freedom of his people. He did, however, believe in the higher power of God. King was a big supporter of us having a relationship with our creator. He wanted us to peacefully live with each other and wanted us as humans to get along no matter what race. King used phrases like, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” and “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed, (Letter In Birmingham)”,…

Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Freedom Marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to secure voting rights for African Americans. Having come out in 2014, Although any historical film is an interpretation of history, this movie accurately depicted what African Americans went through. The first scene introduces Annie Lee Cooper who was denied the right to vote after not being able to name the 67 county judges in Alabama. This was one of the many real…

On a cold Sunday on the seventh of March in 1965 about 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma to Montgomery on U.S. Route 80 for the fight to be able to vote. These people that were traveling to Montgomery are called “foot soldiers”. These black and white men and women were fighting for the rights of black civilians for all of the right reasons, but the rest of the community did not want these men and women protesting. This is the story of the famous “foot soldiers”. The “foot…

The Optimism of the Individual to bring about Social Reform The idea of “civil" action, disobedience to connect individual action to the social good is a major part of Thoreau's belief system. Gandhi's march was "historical" because he recognized its ingrained life-changing nature. The "Long Walk to Freedom" is representative of how Mandela sees the end of apartheid in his vision. The call for sacrifice and pain that each thinker suggests clearly makes the case for an optimistic end. Thoreau's…