What defines a great leader? Is a leader someone that is skilful and creative in solving problems? Is a leader someone who knows how to lead a group, or is it someone that sets goals for themselves? We could think about these questions for a very long time but there is no true definition for a leader. To influence a shared vision you must have certain qualities, make a shared sense of destiny with people, give life to that vision, and make it appeal to the masses. All of these features are in one of the world’s greatest leaders, Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. is best known civil rights leader and peace advocate. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He attended Morehouse College and in 1948 he got a bachelor’s …show more content…
Martin Luther King’s goal was to protest against segregation until it was declared illegitimate. Montgomery, the city where Martin Luther King lived, was a place of great racism in the South. Martin Luther King saw this racism and as a president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), he felt something was needed to be done. Therefore, in 1955, December 1, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on the bus for a white passenger and got arrested, King made the decision to organize a boycott against the bus transportation. From that point forward, the great leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. started. In the early 1960s, he led a nonviolent movement by gathering people for performing nonviolent acts such as marches and sit-ins. The goal of these acts could be reflected in King’s words and that is “to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored” (Letters From a Birmingham Jail). The problem that King saw was the widespread racism and inequality throughout not only Birmingham, but the whole nation. So firstly he went to Birmingham, as it was the town in which African American inequality was the worst. He mentioned that, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. So according to him, stopping the injustice in Birmingham would affect the injustice in the whole …show more content…
Through this, it shows that King was a man of integrity, intelligence and determination. His idea was that if a person uses violence, it would result in violence. Instead King was a caring and compassionate person towards all people regardless of skin colour. He was able to get into the heart of his followers through his famous deep speeches. He cared so much for his people in that he gave 350 speeches and travelled about 275,000 miles during 1963, in order to reach his fellow men. He was known as "the unchallenged voice of the Negro people and the disquieting conscience of the whites". One of his famous inspirational speeches was the “I have a Dream” speech. He delivered this speech on August 28, 1963 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In his speech, he referenced, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of rights, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Bible. He expressed his opinions in such a way that he was able to affect people emotionally and changed the way people thought about the blacks. Through his words he was able to get desegregation in Alabama, Georgia, Southern states of Mississippi and many other
Martin Luther King Jr. is best known civil rights leader and peace advocate. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He attended Morehouse College and in 1948 he got a bachelor’s …show more content…
Martin Luther King’s goal was to protest against segregation until it was declared illegitimate. Montgomery, the city where Martin Luther King lived, was a place of great racism in the South. Martin Luther King saw this racism and as a president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), he felt something was needed to be done. Therefore, in 1955, December 1, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on the bus for a white passenger and got arrested, King made the decision to organize a boycott against the bus transportation. From that point forward, the great leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. started. In the early 1960s, he led a nonviolent movement by gathering people for performing nonviolent acts such as marches and sit-ins. The goal of these acts could be reflected in King’s words and that is “to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored” (Letters From a Birmingham Jail). The problem that King saw was the widespread racism and inequality throughout not only Birmingham, but the whole nation. So firstly he went to Birmingham, as it was the town in which African American inequality was the worst. He mentioned that, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. So according to him, stopping the injustice in Birmingham would affect the injustice in the whole …show more content…
Through this, it shows that King was a man of integrity, intelligence and determination. His idea was that if a person uses violence, it would result in violence. Instead King was a caring and compassionate person towards all people regardless of skin colour. He was able to get into the heart of his followers through his famous deep speeches. He cared so much for his people in that he gave 350 speeches and travelled about 275,000 miles during 1963, in order to reach his fellow men. He was known as "the unchallenged voice of the Negro people and the disquieting conscience of the whites". One of his famous inspirational speeches was the “I have a Dream” speech. He delivered this speech on August 28, 1963 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In his speech, he referenced, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of rights, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Bible. He expressed his opinions in such a way that he was able to affect people emotionally and changed the way people thought about the blacks. Through his words he was able to get desegregation in Alabama, Georgia, Southern states of Mississippi and many other