How Did Martin Luther King Jr Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

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Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr. was raised in the Baptist church and later became a Pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama. Throughout his life, Martin Luther faced segregation because of his race, therefore, he strived to spread the civil rights movement and was an advocate of equality for all people. He did not stand for the injustice placed on his race and wanted to change the way Negroes were treated in the United States during the mid-1900s. In December, 1955, he led one of the first black nonviolent demonstrations in modern times of the United States, the bus boycott, which lasted 382 days and proved to be successful. As a …show more content…
continued to push for more equal rights and traveled across the nation giving speeches in places of injustice as part of his participation in the civil rights movement. One of the most well-known acts of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement, a peaceful protest of 250,000 people, known as the march on Washington, was led by Martin Luther where he gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Many people began to recognize what African Americans were going through, due to the civil disobedience of Martin Luther. In an article titled “Martin Luther King Jr. Biography” on Biography.com it said, “The rising tide of civil rights agitation produced a strong effect on public opinion. Many people in cities not experiencing racial tension began to question the nation's Jim Crow laws and the near century second class treatment of African-American citizens.”As a result of his unrelenting fight for civil rights, “...Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement” (“Martin Luther King Jr. -