8. He is a spiritual leader
He organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), giving him wide spread influence. King went everywhere and talked about race-related issues with spritual and civil rights leaders at home and afar. In February 1959 he went to India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and others. He became more familiar with Ghandi's policy of nonviolence (satyagraha), and knew in his belief that nonviolent resistance was the best way to attain freedom.
MLK of course gained insight from Africa, “The liberation struggle in Africa has been the greatest single international influence on American Negro students,” MLK wrote. “Frequently I hear them say that if their African brothers can break the bonds of colonialism, surely the American Negro can break Jim Crow," according to Britannica.com.
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