Southern Christian Leadership Conference

complete desegregation of the buses. After almost a year the Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful. In November, 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional. King and other ministers from Southern states formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) two months later. The SCLC decided that black churches could assist the Civil Rights Movement implement a nonviolent strategy of action that would challenge segregation across the South. King encouraged other

" I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every Southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty-five affiliate organizations all across the South, one being the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.” Through this quote, he presents himself as a religious figure. Through that, he will be seen a trustworthy

Maya Angelou “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”(Angelou 1). Maya Angelou was an amazing woman. Although she had a difficult childhood, she grew up to be and outstanding woman. She was the first Black woman to do many things, including the first black woman director in Hollywood. Angelou was born in “St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928” (Angelou 1). Her given name was “Marguerite Annie Johnson”

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. / Gandhi's Influence on King.” SFGATE: San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2003, King was inspired by Gandhi and tried to mimic his ways to become the man Gandhi was. King adopted many skill from Gandhi but the main skill was leadership. You could

forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness” (“Letter from Birmingham Jail 3).  Another element that helps support King’s point in his letter is the fervent repetition of his blatant disappointment in more than simply the clergymen, but their Christian faith and the churches in service within Alabama during this time. King repeats how disappointed he was in the “common whites” also and their bystander reactions to racial issues. The fact that this man, a minister, “beneath” the said extremist white

went to most southern states and did not go to all including Alabama, would the action be centered toward equal opportunity or segregation with the idea that each race would be a product of their resources?”     The intent of Dr. King was to address his reasoning for being in Birmingham and to expound upon what the clergyman called unwise and untimely. In the initiation of the letter he explains his position in society. He was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, headquartered

Jail”, was a very fitting response to the Rhetorical situation. Dr. King wrote this powerful letter from his Birmingham, Alabama jail cell in response to several clergymen who criticized the protests he organized as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He was masterful in his descriptive writing, exhibiting peaceful, yet stern and powerful influence in his words to condemn the behavior of the clergy. His words evoked emotion, as he described how his people felt, and why

Luther King Jr. was a peaceful man who used effective and calm ways to handle situations. Martin Luther King Jr. did all he could to make people realize that all men are created equal. He and other civil rights activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a group devoted to achieving equality for African Americans through nonviolence. His “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a famous address which called for peace and equality and

Board of Education ruling proved to be the spark that inspired Shuttlesworth to speak out racism in the South. Shuttlesworth used the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to sue the city of Birmingham when they refused to hire black police officers. Shuttlesworth and the ACMHR eventually went on to attack and challenge all of Birmingham’s segregation laws. This led to the first

him into a great speaker for leading his movement. In many of his civil rights speeches, such as “I Have A Dream,” “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” and “Eulogy For The Victims Of The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing,” Martin Luther King Jr. uses Christian allusions to show his views as a minister and to instill the idea that God is on his side. In MLK’s speech, “I Have A Dream,” he speaks of how he has a dream that one day blacks and whites will get together and be able to celebrate life and liberty