Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights

Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights

Introduction

Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the best known advocates of the twentieth century for bringing social change in a nonviolent manner. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, posing stupendous courage and oratorical skills, which enabled him to gain the attention first time on a national level in 1955. He was along with his other activists of civil rights were taken under custody after initiating a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, a transportation service provider company for entailing non-whites to surrender their bus seats to whites and sitting at ...