Question

Whats the relationship between king and the civil rights movement?

Answer 1

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In the late 1950s, King established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as a national platform for him to provide his peaceful message of civil rights to the world. Because of his commitment to peace, nonviolence and equality, King's civil rights protests made genuine headway in American society.

Answer 2

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including the March on Washington in 1963.