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Firstly after the finish of the Montgomery Bus boycott the U.S Supreme Court reacted by forcing Montgomery and most of the Deep South to completely unsegregate the bus system. This movement and persistence to stick through the boycott for over a year.

A Montgomery federal court ruled on June 5, 1956, in Browder v. Gayle, that the segregation ordinance violated the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. Ergo, the segregation was unconstitutional. The city wasn't pleased and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court didn't budge and upheld the federal court's decision, which went into effect on December 20, 1956. As a result, the buses were integrated the next day, and the 381-day boycott finally ended. (Study.com)

While the March did not immediately change the balance of power in Congress in support of civil rights, it did accomplish two very important things. First, it prompted many Americans to reconsider their perspective on the Civil Rights Movement. Second, it reaffirmed the strength of American liberal institutions. For many Americans, the confirmation that our nation and government institutions were resilient enough to withstand a non–violent mass protest on a deeply divisive issue was reason enough to hope for democracy to prevail. (Based in the March on Washington.) (archives.com)

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How did Martin Luther King raise awareness of civil rights and bring change to society.

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How did Martin Luther King raise awareness of civil rights and bring change to society.

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Martin Luther King led many peaceful protests inspired by ghandi in order to try to gain the right for black people to vote, have jobs, and have freedom (History alive 10).

On August 28, 1963 MLK made his famous “I have a dream” speech during the Washington march for jobs and freedom, in which he called for an end to racism and segregation in the United Statesas well as calling for civil and economic rights. The speech was delivered to more than 25000 people. This was one of the most important moments of the African American civil rights movement as his protest put pressure on the society to make a change to the constitution. He also stated about how he dreams of equality between races (History.com).

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- Black people were still seen as slaves.
- Violence against black was legal in order to “keep them in check”.
- Jim Crow had not yet been abolished.
- Black people were still segregated from the white population.
- Black people could not vote until 1870.
- Black people could not take a white persons job.
- KKK lynching of Black people was still common and punishment was not always given.
- Black children could not attend many of the schools in the area.
- Black people could be arrested for no valid reason or put in jail without trial.

African Americans, or black Americans, were denied basic civil rights in the South. African Americans were barred from schools, busses, restaurants, hotels and other public facilities. Black people were also not permitted to vote. These laws were known as the Jim Crow laws.  https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/forms-civil-society-protest-1960s-and-1970s-grade-12

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- originally named Micheal King JR
- born 15/1/1929 —> died 4/4/1968
- was a Baptist minister & social activist who led US civil rights movement from mid 1950s till death in 1968 (assaninated)
- was one of the keys for the success of the civil rights movement
- wanted to end all legal segregation of African-Americans in the south and other parts of US
- awarded Nobel peace prize in 1964
- rose to national prominence as head of the southern Christian leadership conference
*promoted non-violent tactics like the massive march in Washington

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.-died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement's success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. King rose to national prominence as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which promoted nonviolent tactics, such as the massive March on Washington (1963), to achieve civil rights. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Early years

King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern Black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers. His parents were college-educated, and King's father had succeeded his father-in-law as pastor of the prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The family lived on Auburn Avenue, otherwise known as "Sweet Auburn," the bustling "Black Wall Street," home to some of the country's largest and most prosperous Black businesses and Black churches in the years before the civil rights movement. Young Martin received a solid education and grew up in a loving extended family.

This secure upbringing, however, did not prevent King from experiencing the prejudices then common in the South. He never forgot the time when, at about age six, one of his white playmates announced that his parents would no longer allow him to play with King, because the children were now attending segregated schools. Dearest to King in these early years was his maternal grandmother, whose death in 1941 left him shaken and unstable. Upset because he had learned of her fatal heart attack while attending a parade without his parents' permission, the 12-year-old King attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window.

In 1944, at age 15, King entered Morehouse College in Atlanta under a special wartime program intended to boost enrollment by admitting promising high-school students like King. Before beginning college, however, King spent the summer on a tobacco farm in Connecticut; it was his first extended stay away from home and his first substantial experience of race relations outside the segregated South. He was shocked by how peacefully the races mixed in the North. "Negroes and whites go [to] the same church," he noted in a letter to his parents. "I never [thought] that a person of my race could eat anywhere." This summer experience in the North only deepened King's growing hatred of racial segregation.

At Morehouse, King favoured studies in medicine and law, but these were eclipsed in his senior year by a decision to enter the ministry, as his father had urged. King's mentor at Morehouse was the college president, Benjamin Mays, a social gospel activist whose rich oratory and progressive ideas had left an indelible imprint on King's father. Committed to fighting racial inequality, Mays accused the African American community of complacency in the face of oppression, and he prodded the Black church into social action by criticizing its emphasis on the hereafter instead of the here and now; it was a call to service that was not lost on the teenage King. He graduated from Morehouse in 1948.

King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he became acquainted with Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence as well as with the thought of contemporary Protestant theologians. He earned a bachelor of divinity degree in 1951. Renowned for his oratorical skills, King was elected president of Crozer's student body, which was composed almost exclusively of white students. As a professor at Crozer wrote in a letter of recommendation for King, "The fact that with our student body largely Southern in constitution a colored man should be elected to and be popular [in] such a position is in itself no mean recommendation." From Crozer, King went to Boston University, where, in seeking a firm foundation for his own theological and ethical inclinations, he studied man's relationship to God and received a doctorate (1955) for a dissertation titled "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. | Biography, Speeches, Facts, & Assassination

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Martin Luther King, Jr., a visionary leader and advocate for equality, spearheaded the civil rights movement in America through nonviolent protests, inspiring lasting change and leaving an enduring legacy.

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1. http://biography.yourdictionary.com/articles/martin-luther-kings-vision-change-world.html
- non violent protests
- speeches (i have a dream etc.)
- led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott
- organised 1968 march in Washington
- advocated for civil disobedience & non violent protests
2.https://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/HIS135/Events/King68/King68.htm
- arrested over 20 times for protesting
- he was the object for many violent attacks both person & property
- received threatening phone calls
- home was bombed and set on fire
- he was also stabbed
- also faced opposition from his own race
- subjected to several unwarrantable investigations by FBI
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- despite all of the challenges he still pushed through
- kept doing non-violent protests
- stayed true to his heart and his beliefs

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http://biography.yourdictionary.com/articles/martin-luther-kings-vision-change-world.html
- changed law so there was no separate rules for each race (white & black)
- responsible for passing of civil rights act
- changed voting rights for African-American
- inspired the US and rest of world to do the same he did
- by 1964 United Nations memership double from 1945 (most members from developing countries)