2. He had great experience as a leader and social mover
Three examples of his leadership and how he moved the social landscape.
In 1968 in Memphis 1,300 black sanitation workers protested terrible working conditions, discrimination and poor pay. Discrimination was rampant as they were sent home without pay while white workers stayed on the job. The strike began on Feb. 12, 1968. Martin Luther King came to Memphis to speak and support the second march of the black workers. The strike lasted for 64 days and was a major point in the civil rights movement. It ended on April 12, 1968, with the city of Memphis giving in to the workers’ demands. Still, more strikes had to be threatened to make them honor the agreement.
In Montgomery, Alabama, MLK led a boycott against city buses that did not let blacks sit in the front seats of the bus, starting with the famous Rosa Parks moment. The protest gained followers rapidly, leading to a citywide boycott of the bus system until there was change. MLK and other were sent to jail and still, the boycott succeeded. This gave momentum to the civil rights movement of the time, gaining national attention.
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the civil rights movement led a huge march for equal rights into Washington, DC. The crowd was over 200,000 followers, protesting racial discrimination in employment, racial separatism in education, and they demanded all employees must have minimum wage. It was where he spoke his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream.”
The pressure got put on John F. Kennedy, who then pushed for civil rights laws in Congress and it then got recognized on a national level, according to Yourdictionary.com
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