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In six pages this paper takes a sociological approach to Dr. King’s 1968 assassination, considering how his personal and professional philosophies may have led to his demise. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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of Independence, that all men are created equal. Kings personal and political ideologies were deeply rooted in Western social philosophy and were reinforced by an unwavering commitment to civil
disobedience through nonviolent protest. At the time of Dr. Kings assassination in April 1968, the United States was undergoing its most tumultuous period since the Civil War. The
times had changed, but the practice of racism throughout America sadly had not. Kings assassination was the third murder of high-profile American political and social leaders in less than
five years - beginning with President John F. Kennedy in 1963 followed by Malcolm X in 1965. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy would follow Dr. King to the grave two
months later shortly after winning the California presidential primary. While psychological perspectives examine internal causative factors, sociological perspectives instead focus on the external or environmental factors that result in
violence. From this viewpoint, it would appear that Dr. Kings ideologies ironically incited the violence of his own death that he dedicated his life to preventing. Born in
Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929, the parents of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were no strangers to racism. His college-educated mother told her son about segregation and advised
him at an early age that racial prejudice represented "a social condition rather than a natural order" (McCartney, 1992, p. 97). Kings minister father was a sharecroppers son who
witnessed Negro bus passengers violently attacked by whites, and so he refused to take public transportation (McCartney, 1992). Like his father, King became a Baptist minister, and attended Atlantas
Morehouse College, and Chester, Pennsylvanias Crozier Theological Seminary. He married Coretta Scott in 1953, and they would later become parents of four children - two sons and two daughters.
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