While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals.
civil disobedience of unjust laws. Martin Luther believed in Non-violent protest which many were shocked when it worked. Martin and his followers didn't follow a lot of segregation laws to show their civil disobedience and show how they believed the laws were unjust.
After the first permanent English colony was settled in 1607, English colonists soon populated the entire eastern seaboard of the present-day United States.
the first all black combat regiment was the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment there's not a definitive answer on who the first African American soldier was.
