Civil Rights And Southern United States

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Civil rights and southern United States

[Dated]Civil rights and southern United States

Introduction

The social movements of United States were called as African American civil rights movement. Civil right movement was in the year from 1955 to 1965. The aim of this movement is to remove the biasness in opposition to the black Americans including their views, ideas and actions against beliefs. An American leader named Martin Luther king played an important role in civil rights movement (Schlesinger, 2002). Martin Luther King was a pacifist said, in deeds and words his speech "I Have a Dream", held in Washington a few years earlier, strongly marked by pacifism and tolerance, has left its mark in American history.

Discussion

Q: how and why kings mission to effect civil rights into the southern United States evolve into a broader crusade against imperialism and economic inequality by the time of this death??

In 1960, the young pastor of the Baptist Church in Montgomery (Alabama) Martin Luther King, who has earned a reputation as a fighter for civil rights of blacks in the United States, visited at the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru, India, where he led the work of Mahatma Gandhi studied. In India, the world's future Nobel laureate Martin Luther King has discussed the ideas of Gandhi with the people who knew Mahatma and have resilient his ideas. The veterans of the struggle for the independence of India welcomed the black-Americana as an apostle of the nonviolence movement. A brilliant speaker, the leader of the movement of the struggle for civil rights, has Martin Luther King fought actively against racial discrimination. He studied in the last course of the seminary as the regulation of the Supreme Court of the United States passed that banned segregation in the dining car of the long-distance trains. King himself has met with such segregation (Jackson, 2009).

When he first heard the train to the north went to the State of Connecticut, he had to eat behind the curtain that separated the white customers in the restaurant of the colorful. On the way back to Atlanta he has been separated again by a curtain. "The feeling was as if I have been destroyed as a person," King said. Once, Martin Luther King went with his friends to the car in the state of New Jersey, and on the way they decided to eat in a restaurant. The travelers sat down at a table and began to wait, when you approach them. But at the only black visitors in the restaurant no one wanted to go. But starved visitors who have chosen to await the operation but sit, remained. In some time, they were the owners of small restaurants to understand that he has no intention to use it. The two couples were sitting stubbornly Negro. The owner came back and let it go away angering. The guests of the company did not move. The owner started screaming and swinging with a gun (Thomas F. Jackson, 2009).

He even fired in the air. Martin Luther King and his friend ...
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