During the less than 13 years (click here) of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of
the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until
April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward
racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced. Dr.
King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of
nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history. Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals. He went on to lead similar campaigns against poverty and international conflict, always maintaining fidelity to his principles that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human family....
During
the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of
the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until
April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward
racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced. Dr.
King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of
nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history.
Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals. He went on to lead similar campaigns against poverty and international conflict, always maintaining fidelity to his principles that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human family.
- See more at: http://www.thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king#sthash.Y8ajqJQa.dpuf
Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals. He went on to lead similar campaigns against poverty and international conflict, always maintaining fidelity to his principles that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human family.
- See more at: http://www.thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king#sthash.Y8ajqJQa.dpuf
