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This is a 6 page paper outlining Martin Luther King’s messages on non-violence and brotherly love on the legal system during his time and in modern day. An outline of the civil rights movements during the time of Martin Luther King and their effects on the legal system in the United States were prominent in their time but have since evolved into quite a different movement in today’s society. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, King and his colleagues promoted the non-violent action towards peace and equality among men and women in the country. Inspired by Gandhi’s non-violent ideals, King was often criticized by other activists of the “black power” movement who demanded more action and protests rather than peaceful initiatives. Nevertheless, because of many of the peaceful initiatives backed by King affiliated well developed organizations, many civil rights policies were implemented in the legal system during King’s time. In the years since King’s death however, the social movements in the black and social rights communities have changed into more conservative movements and focused largely on the political climate and unemployment, illegal drugs, violence and urban blight.
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King and their effects on the legal system in the United States were prominent in their time but have since evolved into quite a different movement in todays society. In
the late 1950s and early 1960s, King and his colleagues promoted the non-violent action towards peace and equality among men and women in the country. Inspired by Gandhis non-violent ideals,
King was often criticized by other activists of the "black power" movement who demanded more action and protests rather than peaceful initiatives. Nevertheless, because of many of the peaceful initiatives
backed by King affiliated well developed organizations, many civil rights policies were implemented in the legal system during Kings time. In the years since Kings death however, the social movements
in the black and social rights communities have changed into more conservative movements and focused largely on the political climate and unemployment, illegal drugs, violence and urban blight.
Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta and became one of the best known speakers and advocates for non-violent social change based on
his studies of Mahatma Gandhis philosophies before King received his Ph.D. in theology in 1955 (Carson, 1991). He became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama and
was shortly afterwards involved in the cause begun by civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she refused to follow the citys laws mandating segregation on the city buses. Black residents
of the area formed a bus boycott and elected King as the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (Carson, 1991). King and the Montgomery Improvement Association sustained a long legal
battle and were also charged with conspiring to interfere with the bus companys operations. In December 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabamas segregation laws were unconstitutional and the buses
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