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... ” This excerpt was a portion of the extraordinary black civil rights speech that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was greatly influenced by the works of Mohandas Gandhi and his practices of nonviolent civil disobedience. ... King. ... Using the practices of Mohandas Gandhi and nonviolent civil disobedience, Dr. King organized a protest, which was later entitled The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which blacks refused to ride the buses. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... King began to organize civil rights campaigns throughout the United States, and as time went on, protests transformed into mass movements. ... King, like Gandhi, was also jailed numerous times due to these mass movements, but that wasn’t enough to restrain his policy of nonviolent protests. Due to the numerous protests and movements that occurred, several organizations were formed to aide similar black civil rights’ causes and nonviolent protests such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. This committee was founded by a group of black and white college students at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina for the purpose of sit-ins, a type of nonviolent protest in which the protestors seat themselves in an appropriate place and refuse to move.
Approximate Word count = 901
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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