Martin Luther King III

government to change (Civil Disobedience); therefore there is no singular manner in which it must be conducted. In a comparison of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Antigone, two different approaches are revealed. Though Dr. King and Antigone are strikingly similar in their practice of civil disobedience to illuminate fundamental problems within society and government. Where Dr. King is notoriously eloquent and forthright in addressing the issue of unjust laws and oppression, Antigone allows her…

Baptist minister and social activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, from mid 1950’s until his death in 1968. As reported by “King speaks to March on Washington”(2010), the great and legendary Dr. King expressed his speech on August 28th, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington D.C. located where Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. Common sense would tell us, Dr. King was bright when he delivered…

The 1960s was a time of great economic prosperity and social progression within America. With the economy thriving as a result of World War II, baby boomers were born into a time that would reshape the ideals of traditional American standards regarding practices of, but not limited to, religion and racial separation. The combination of political, economic, and social structure during the 60s and into the 70s served to provide America with a more concise foundation and definition of its very…

Within the four walls of the jail cell Martin Luther King Jr wrote a letter to clergymen who criticized his actions towards combatting injustice in Birmingham. In this letter, now known as the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, King Jr explains his reasons for being in Birmingham which includes being invited by organizational commitments and also due to the fact that there is injustice in the city. King Jr. states that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”…

relying on the courts to gain equality to rejecting and protesting their treatment in segregated states” (Wiley, 2016, Para 1) The African American community led by Luther King Jr and Montgomery improvement association boycotted the bus company for 382 days; therefore, bus companies took a big loss. The city did not give in to Mr. Kings and the Montgomery association’s demands. But the MIA filed a law suit and the federal court declared segregation laws unconstitutional and made illegal. On…

Following her arrest, African American leaders organized a boycott of the bus system. Martin Luther King, Jr was the leader of the boycott that lasted for a year. African Americans used car pools, took taxis that were owned by blacks, or walked. Whites started attacking walkers and burning black churches, tickets were given to blacks using car pools, even King was arrested and his houses were destroyed. However, King continued to call for nonviolence resistance, which would be the primary…

decision to disobey an unjust law is considered unlawful in the eyes of authority; however, such decisions are honorable because moral law is more valuable than civil law. With regards to Sophocles’ Antigone, Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, and Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham jail, civil disobedience is a righteous act that oppose an unreasonable and unfavorable law. In Sophocles’ play Antigone, Antigone justifies her actions when she deduces her brother has the right to appropriate…

dream for a very long time, and without it, who knows where they would be. Without their American Dream, George and Lennie would not have been driven as much as they were. They would not have kept going and made it as far as they did. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream,” he explains how he would like everyone…

from what once held one in bondage. Although, freedom according to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary gives a concise definition which states: “Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the other power of another: independence. Nevertheless, Martin Luther king Jr. is a well-known activist who fought for the freedom for African Americans. Also know for the March and his I have a dream speech. He wrote a letter while being kept in the Birmingham jail giving his rebuttal to the 8 clergy man who…

“Martin Luther King was a human being, no more or less so than any member of his family tree, or any other human being.” This sentence from Burrow’s work sums up beautifully Dr. King’s humble beginnings and allows one to stress the significance of the tradition and community that King was thrust into as a young champion of racial equality. In following I will attempt to provide a brief illustration of the racial landscape that King inherited as well as touch influential experiences that…