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A 4 page exploration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s premise of non-violence. This paper observes the impact of this premise on the women’s movement. Biblography lists 4 sources.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is primarily identified with the fight for black equality. Dr. Kings premise of non-violent social protest, however, was
influential in achieving equality for a diversity of people. In 1968 King, along with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, set in motion the civil rights movement which would come
to be known as the Poor Peoples Campaign. The Poor Peoples Campaign advocated equality for all, equality which translated into economic as well as societal justice not just for
blacks but for a diversity of people (Aguiar, 2001). The campaign is considered by many historians to be the "last effort of the 1960s mass mobilizations of nonviolent resistance"
(Aguiar, 2001). As an example of groups Kings principle of non-violent resistance affected other than blacks, the womens movement is of particular interest. The thesis can be presented,
in fact, that: the success enjoyed by the womens movement has been facilitated by the
employment of the same principles of non-violence that were utilized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long way to go in achieving true equality.
King was intimately aware of the many injustices affecting both of these groups and tirelessly promoted a peaceful means of effecting change. In his now infamous "Letter from a
Birmingham Jail", a letter drafted during Kings imprisonment for his efforts to promote equality, King wrote:
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