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Chapter XI of Bearing the Cross by Garrow

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

Dr. Martin Luther King's Ideologies and How They Contributed to His Murder

told her son about segregation and advised him at an early age that racial prejudice represented "a social condition rather than a...

Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses the boycotting of Montgomery buses that inspired this 1958 text and led to the civil rights mov...

Civil Disobedience, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. II

In eight pages this research paper is an extended version of another paper khmlk&g.wps and focuses upon Gandhi's influence in ...

Civil Rights and Political Action

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

Speech Analysis / King's 'I Have a Dream'

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement

By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...

Literary Social Criticism

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

Peaceful Protest in 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luther King Jr.

Peaceful protests and social moderates' roles in desegregation movement are examined within the context of 'Letter from Birmingham...

Consideration of the Quote 'No Man is an Island'

In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...

"Letter from the Birmingham City Jail," and Martin Luther KIng's Concepts of Just, Unjust, and Morality

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

Martin Luther King/”Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

as his overarching rationale, as he is also in Birmingham "because "injustice is here" (King). In analyzing the situation in Bir...

Western Culture and the Effects of Religion

In eight pages this paper discusses how Western culture has been affected by religion in a consideration of such powerful figures ...

Martin Luther

was while he was there that he was able to earn a "baccalaureate and masters degrees in the shortest time allowed by university st...

Comparisons Between Violent and Nonviolent Civil Rights Protests

2006). Most blacks in Montgomery at that time relied upon public transportation to travel to their jobs, but were forced by law t...

Different Approaches of Civil Rights Leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

In five pages this paper evaluates the short and long term influences of Malcolm and King in a contrasting of their very different...

Marxism and the Superiority of Martin Luther King's Equality Concepts

In three pages King and Marx are contrasted and compared with the writer ultimately concluding that Martin Luther King's notions o...

Nonviolent Philosophies of Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau

a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....

Common Ground Stood on by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

law is no law at all" (King, 2001). Dr. King also refers to the Bible and how Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Book of Daniel...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Just Law, Unjust Law, and the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...

Social Movements and Their Impact

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

King and Thoreau

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

Human Rights and Social Welfare: Martin Luther King Jr.

to his assassination (New York Amsterdam News, 2003). "Dr. King understood that civil rights meant more than the right to vote or ...

Comparison of the Citizens' Rights Views of Plato and Martin Luther King Jr.

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

1960s' America

In this paper that is comprised of brief essays the America of the 1960s is explored through such references as Martin Luther Kin...

Philosophy of Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

In seven pages this research paper examines how King's philosophy of nonviolent protest was influenced by Indian practitioner of c...

Psalm 1 and Martin Luther

This paper examines Martin Luther's life and compares how he interpreted Psalm 1 and its impact upon the reformation movement in t...

Martin Luther's Successful Reformation

In five pages this paper discusses Martin Luther's successful Reformation movement in terms of why his succeeded where others incl...