Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who advocated nonviolent resistance and helped lead the movement against racial segregation.

Coretta Scott King: Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist and singer who continued her husband’s work after his assassination. She was King’s partner in activism and later led efforts to preserve his legacy.
Montgomery bus boycott: The 1955–1956 mass protest against racial segregation on Montgomery, Alabama, buses. King rose to national prominence while leading this sustained campaign.
Nonviolent resistance: A strategy for confronting injustice through noncooperation and protest without physical violence. King treated nonviolence as both a practical method and a moral commitment.
Civil Rights Act of 1964: A United States federal law that prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and federally funded programs. King’s campaigns helped build the public pressure that preceded its passage.
The Drum Major Instinct: A sermon King delivered in 1968 about the desire for recognition and the possibility of redirecting it toward service. It captures his effort to turn personal ambition into collective service.
Ralph Abernathy: Ralph Abernathy was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He was King’s close collaborator and succeeded him as the conference’s president.
Birmingham campaign: The 1963 civil rights campaign of marches and boycotts against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. King’s imprisonment and the campaign’s televised brutality intensified pressure for federal action.
Civil disobedience: The deliberate breach of a law judged unjust, usually undertaken openly and with willingness to accept punishment. King defended breaking segregation laws openly as a way to expose their injustice.
Voting Rights Act of 1965: A United States federal law that targeted racial discrimination in voting, especially in the South. The Selma campaign King supported helped spur its enactment.
Poor People's Campaign: A 1968 movement seeking federal action against poverty through a multiracial campaign and encampment in Washington, D.C. King’s final major campaign widened his agenda beyond racial segregation.

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