Laws, known a Jim Crow Laws, legalized racial segregation, which submitted African-Americans to second-class citizenship, whilst enforcing white supremacy. ... This discrimination can be seen in the divide of resources in the education system, where in 1949 in Alabama, the states expenditure for African American students was only 27 per cent of its expenditure of white students. ... King's method inextricably intertwined a method of non- retaliation to abuse and the highlighting of unfair treatment of African Americans to create a system where African Americans were now viewed as the vict...

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He further argues that the needs of the African-American community call for a shift in political strategy whereby the blacks would have to ally with white unions in order to have an economic agenda, which he further states that it is time to move on from protest to politics. During the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, which begun after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, Rustin opposed the campaign due to his concerns about civil disobedience in which he argued that the plans were vague and had lacked any direction as well as it did not address the key issues of the day...

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