Martin Luther King Jr Objectives
Introduction
Martin Luther King still holds the best records of his great zeal and success in fighting for the combating of racism in both the United States and the entire world. The King said that he had a vision where he saw a society which people were treated depending on the race from which they originate. The efforts of the King and others who were like him in the battles for civil rights have changed United States and the ecosphere for the better. His vision had great effects by making the world more equal and gave the minority a chance to have a voice.
Initially in America the African Americans had no voice, they were oppressed because of their race. They were forced to use separate public utilities like schools, hospitals, roads while there were superior ones that were earmarked for the white people. They grieved discernment in occupation and accommodation upon the exploitation from the whites.[1] The African Americans were not in a position to exercise their voting rights fully. [2]It was in this environment that Martin Luther King Jr saw the possibility of having an America where both the black and the white living as equally. This was what really drove him into joining the contest for the privileges for black Americans.[3]
The King’s objective was racial equality in the country, he plotted a number of goals that tangled operations for equivalent civil liberties for the African Americans. The King become intricate in his initial civil rights movement in Montgomery where cars remained ethnically separated.[4] The campaign at last was a great success, his nonviolent tactics made the issue a national agenda. This gave the King and his allies a public chance to place their objections before the state’s center, he also used the chance to backer for other human privileges causes like paucity and worker’s rights. This led to passage of the significant civil rights legislation that helped reduce if not completely do away with the oppression and discrimination of African Americans to date[5].
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Greene, Carol. 1989. Martin Luther King, Jr.: a man who changed things. Chicago: Childrens Press.
[5] YOUNGE, GARY. "THE SPEECH." Nation 297, no. 9/10 (September 2, 2013): 12-18. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed May 26, 2016).
