1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott - Head of MIA and key figure
1963 - Birmingham protest - America's worst big city - would produce white violence that won national sympathy - 1000 marched downtown -MLF arrested JFK intervened - police attacked peaceful black's - US witnessed
1963 - I have a dream speech - March On Washington
- Freedom rides
- Peaceful
- Desegregation & political rights
- Views later changed especially when he visited Chicago, he realised that it's easier to change legal laws but not social, still De Jure segregation was visible in the north.
- Founded the SCLC in 1857
He had been critisised for his slow approach, many young African Americans felt that his approach was not making great progress.
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