"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws," nobel peace prize winner, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed. ... The movement needs to convey their stimulus to others who may see the same injustice and join the movement. Furthermore, the movement needs to be public as to raise awareness of those not impacted, and gain their empathy. ... For example, Gandhi led the movement for independence in India by using nonviolent civil disobedience. ... It is fitting to judge contrarily the character of a man who was shamefully persuaded to make excellent move wi...

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Outsiders Coming In Because the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a national organization that worked to support local, grassroots campaigns for civil rights, they wee often accused of being outside agitators. ... SCLC trained local communities in the philosophy of Christian nonviolence, and through its affiliation with churches and its advocacy of nonviolence, sought to put the struggle for civil rights in moral terms. ... s concept of active resistance/civil disobedience. ... The scale of protest and police brutality of the Birmingham Campaign created a new level of visibility for...

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Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. ... He pursued his dream of spreading the civil-rights movement to other cities. ... With Levison and Bayard Rustin's help, King and the SCLC decided to pressure President Eisenhower about voting-rights laws and the proposed Civil Rights Act. ... The march did not persuade Congress to pass a strong civil-rights act, and President Eisenhower still would not meet with black leaders. In September ...

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(January 15, 1929 -1968 on April 4), the famous leader of the American civil rights movement. 1948 graduation. ... Kennedy, called for the adoption of new civil rights laws, with equal rights for blacks. ... He was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. ... Tablets, he explained the original intention of the American civil rights movement, hopes and dreams, refuted all the accusations of the civil rights movement. ... Birmingham protests against President Kennedy responded, he proposed to relax the requirements of civi...

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President Kennedy "viewed civil rights as an issue to be managed rather than a battle his administration would join. ... "Southern segregationists were often portrayed as archaic and destructive figures, but they were frequently paired with Negro civil rights troublemakers."" Most white Americans wanted to stay uninvolved because the civil rights movement was portrayed as an "unholy- mess. ... "Eight local clergy published a letter referring to King and his fellow civil rights activists as outsiders, calling the protests unwise and untimely' and praising law enforcement, in parti...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a preacher and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. ... On December 5, 1955, after a Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks refused to comply with Montgomery's segregation policy on buses, the Black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. ... King as president was that he was so new to Montgomery and to civil rights work that he hadn't been there long enough to make any strong friends or enemies." ... By the end of February's second ...

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Throughout his life, King was known best as a Civil Rights Leader. ... On this date, a two day meeting was scheduled to begin in Ebenezer Baptist Church to lay out plans to create and organization to maintain the momentum of the movement for change throughout the South. ... Student activism provided the spark that gave new life to the Civil Rights Movement. ... During his incarceration, criticism by local white clergymen of the movement and King's actions prompted him to write his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." ...

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