It depicts the life of Vernon Jones, the man who preceded Martin Luther King Jr. ... Before leaving as pastor, Johns passed on his duties to Reverend King, who is surprisingly a very minor character in the story. James Earl Jones played the role of the Reverend Vernon Johns, as the leader of a black congregation in Montgomery in the early 1950s. ...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. After the infringing of this segregation law on buses Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) agreed, to aid Rosa Parks in leading the blacks in the Montgomery bus boycott. ... Eventually Parks and her family moved to Detroit and in 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers Jr. to manage his office, as he was also a civil rights leader. Parks was also active in the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), the organization lead for a ...
By examining the events prior to Martin Luther King, Jr.'... However, Martin Luther King Jr. saw the situation as one that could be solved by incorporating the philosophy of Gandhian nonviolence with the love and compassion of Christianity. ...
