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Review Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, "Letters from Birmingham Jail", and the take the "March to Freedom Tour" (virtual tour) and discuss (given many of the violent episodes of the period) why his peaceful ideology has had such an impact on all civil rights movements (Women's Rights, Human Rights, Equality, etc.).
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The Power of Pacifism: An Analysis of Martin Luther King
As an American citizen, Martin Luther King, Jr. was well aware of the racially fueled violence that
was taking over the country. As a black man himself, Dr. King was exposed to this violence. Be it
from the constant awareness that he was a target due to the color of his skin, to the reports of
other black men and women being abused, to the actual instances when he was forcibly restraint
and beaten, he was ever stuck in a cycle of never ending violence. In the city of Birmingham,
where he was imprisoned for organizing and participating in a peaceful protest, his outcome
could have been much worse. When a campaigned was launched in 1963 to protest the
segregation laws that were in place, non-violent protestors were met with high-pressure water
hoses, dogs, and countless police officers ready to strike them.1 Men, women and even children,
were indiscriminately targeted by the police force, to silence any uproar that the movement
might cause.
Though Dr. King was already a peaceful activist since the beginning of his career, his time in
Birmingham helped to ma...