How Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental to the municipal rights movement

Introduction

It is right that Barack Obama was sworn in the United States 44th president - and first African American president - the day after a federal holiday honoring the memory and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

"I can't battle for regulations to make persons like me, but I can battle for regulations that will not allow them to lynch me in the streets. And that's attractive important."(Martin Luther King Jr).

Martin Luther King, who would have celebrated his 80th birthday on January 15, 2009, came to symbolize the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60's through his speeches, marches and protests. Because of his leadership and efforts of hundreds of thousands of militants, the U.S. Congress has passed many important laws that will enable progress towards the goals of the land Americans on the basis of equality under the law after a history of slavery and segregation of African-Americans.

Now, with the election of Barack Obama, the U.S. has taken another big step toward the vision of Martin Luther King in an America where everyone has an equal chance to succeed based on their character and not their race.

The climax of the stride on Washington, Dr. King described this vision in his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On January 18, Barack Obama delivered a speech of the same steps to start the work leading to his inauguration, marking a major social and political stage in March with the equal civil rights for all Americans.

This February, in honor of Black History Month, FindLaw provides a brief examination of the many contributions of Dr. King in the U.S. civil rights.

Thesis Statement

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental to the civil rights movement because he believed in persuading in a non-aggressive way.

In the early municipal privileges in America

The search for civil rights in this country began in the country itself. In 1783 - even before the Constitution was ratified by the states - Massachusetts has banned slavery. The compromise of the original Constitution as 3 / 5, which slaves only account for 3 / 5 of a person for purposes of determining representation in the House reflects the tension that is already under construction between the northern and southern states on the issue of slavery.

In 1957 monarch joined with the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy and Bayard Rustin to pattern the Southern Christian authority Conference (SCLC). The new organisation was pledged to using nonviolence in the struggle for civil rights, and SCLC adopted the motto: "Not one hair of one head of one person should be harmed."

King's non-violent scheme was taken up by very dark students all over the Deep South. This encompassed the activities of the Freedom Riders in their campaign against segregated transport. Within six months these sit-ins had completed restaurant and lunch-counter segregation in twenty-six southern cities. Student sit-ins were also thriving against segregation in public parks, swimming swimming pools, theaters, places ...