Explain Fully the Contributions Made by Martin Luther King Toward the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's.

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Explain fully the contributions made by Martin Luther King toward the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's. I'm sure that most people will agree Martin Luther King made a phenomenal contribution toward the Civil Rights Movement that started during the mid 1950's but, Martin Luther King wasn't the first person to come along and say that things needed to change ,i will be discussing what exactly Martin Luther Kings achievements were and the other people that were also involved in pushing along the Civil Rights Movement. There were people such as Marcus Garvey ,who believed that Blacks should just up and leave the states and move back to Africa and he even, to some extent supported the KKK because they also wanted the Black Americans to flee back to Africa, also Malcolm X who believed in violence as the way to take control over the Civil Rights, there was also Rosa Parks who kicked off the Bus Boycott in Montgomery and James Meredith who was the first black student to attend an all whites college. All of these people and many many more were the reason there is no segregation or discrimination of blacks in the US today. Martin Luther king was a baptist Minister in Birmingham, Alabama in 1954 and he was also named leader of the SCLC in 1957. Martin Luther King believed in non-violent protest and he set up a lot of famous campaigns such as the bus boycott in Montgomery during the mid 1950's with the help of Rosa Parks and all black Americans living there at the time, which ended after one year because the buses company owners realized that blacks made up around 70% of the customers and so they had no choice but to desegregate the buses in Alabama , he also ran other campaigns such as the famous sit-ins where he and other black and sometimes even white Americans would sit in the white seats at a restaurant and refuse to get up for white customers and some of

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