Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK's protest ideology
non-violence
Who did he define as the enemy
White Americans
Significance
President of the United States
Racial Ideology
Racial solidarity and racial superiority of African Americans
Most promiment civil rights group, 5 letters, MLK was a member
NAACP
Vision of "I Have a Dream" speech
Racial, religious, and ethnic integration of a harmonious America
Geographical difference from other leaders
Focused on deplorable living conditions for African Americans in the urban North
Act signed into law in 1965
Voting Rights Act
Religious Views
African Americans were God's chosen people who would triumph with Allah's help (he was the leader of the Nation of Islam)
US Religious-based civil rights group
SCLC
Prompt for "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"
Criticism from 8 white Alabama clergymen regarding protests in Birmingham calling King's group 'outsiders' and defending the city's 'moderate' administration
Which group did he work closest with
Nation of Islam
Criticism of his personality
White Southerner known for using racial epithets
Key personal principles
Discipline and economic self-reliance
International religious-based civil rights group
Nation of Islam
Civil Rights involvement before 1963 (3 answers)
Montgomery Bus Boycott, NAACP membership, co-founder of SCLC
Racial Ideology
White society was corrput and corrupted everything it touched; African Americans needed to control their own education, politics, and economy
Criticism of his past
Late-career conversion to equal rights cause after weakening/opposing legislation in the prior decade
Recommended course of action for African Americans
African Americans should become highly educated and practice small scale community capitalism, owning local businesses and only buying from Black-owned stores
Powerful entity that used influence to sow discord amongst civil rights groups
FBI
Criticism of MLK's participation in protests
Organizers felt that King arrived after all the organizing work was done, brought attention to the protest, then returned to Atlanta and left the organizers to deal with the fallout
Cause and location of death
Assassinated while giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem
Response to racial riots in Detroit
Sent troops and proposed more legislation
African Americans should avoid
Vice (wicked or immoral behavior)
Tied together all the other civil rights groups in unity
OAAU