Martin Luther King, Jr: Civil Rights Leader (Black Americans by Robert E. Jakoubek;Heather Lehr Wagner PDF

By Robert E. Jakoubek;Heather Lehr Wagner

ISBN-10: 0791081613

ISBN-13: 9780791081617

ISBN-10: 1438100906

ISBN-13: 9781438100906

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By 1957, his efforts to achieve the independence of his country became successful. The new nation, named Ghana, was the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain its independence from European nations. It became an inspiration to other African nations struggling to achieve independence, and, for King and others, Nkrumah’s successful use of nonviolent protests was a powerful testimony to the power of peaceful resistance. 50 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Congress eventually approved the Civil Rights Act of 1957, but by the time it passed, Southern senators and representatives had succeeded in gutting the sections protecting black voting rights.

E. D. Nixon had been right; it was the case for which they had been looking. 37 38 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MONTGOMERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION In the afternoon, the local black leadership met to establish a new organization to direct the boycott. At Abernathy’s suggestion, they decided to call the new group the Montgomery Improvement Association, or MIA. After agreeing on a name, they turned to electing a president. In a far corner of the room, Rufus Lincoln, a professor from Alabama State, the city’s black university, called, “Mr.

In Montgomery, as in every other segregated Southern city, a minority of blacks had done well for themselves. They were the lawyers and doctors, undertakers and store owners, teachers and accountants who served the black community. Quite a few members of this black middle class in Montgomery worshiped at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. It was, in Daddy King’s words, “a big-shots church,” its congregation generally prosperous, well dressed, and restrained. As a measure of their affluence, they paid their new minister $4,200 a year, the most offered by any black church in town.

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