MLK_And_His_Quest_For_Peaceful_Protest

MLK And His Quest For Peaceful Protest It is important to acknowledge the history behind the African American quest for social equality. Throughout U.S. history there have been numerous African American supporters of peaceful protest. The most prominent however, was Martin Luther King Jr. and his movement of nonviolent civil action. Inspired by the belief that love and peaceful protest could eliminate social injustice, Martin Luther King, Jr., became the most influential black leader during the Civil Rights movement. He aroused whites and blacks alike to protest racial discrimination, poverty, and war. His vision transcended racial matters. As he said after Malcolm X's assassination, "We as a society have not learned to disagree without being violently disagreeable" (Davis, 1974.) In the international arena, when he won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, King argued that "the crucial political and moral question of our time" was "the need to king, protest, 1974, peaceful, nonviolent, davis, without, violence, supreme, social, racial, oppression, new, movement, martin, luther, jr, history, during, civil, boycott, been, american, african, x's, wrote, won, whites, war, vision, violently, vandalized, united, transcended, time, throughout