Martin Luther King's high-profile emergence
in 1963, through the power of his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," precipitated a change
within the Civil Rights Movement that shifted its techniques from paths of pursuing legal
redress, as in Brown vs Board of Education, and individual protests, like
Rosa Park's choice of a bus seat and local sit-ins such as the sit-in at Woolworth's, to large
scale organized events, like the March on Washington spearheaded by King, who delivered his
"I Have a Dream" speech before Lincoln's Memorial.
No comments:
Post a Comment