The Civil Rights that Martin Luther King Jr. was working to Promote and Protect
Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated as one of the 20th century’s famous advocates for social change (Hayes, 2019). He wanted to put an end to segregation and discrimination that existed in the United States. The work of King was among the universal trends that did not accept the concept of racism. Martin Luther King demanded legislation of civil rights to protect the rights of Black Americans in the United States. Today, the African Black community can enjoy the benefits of the translation of Martin Luther King into reality.
The Tactics that Martin Luther King Jr. used to Promote Civil Rights
King came up with a series of smaller goals that entailed local grassroots campaigns for equal rights for the Black Americans. The campaigns entailed nonviolent mass demonstrations and protests to draw attention to racial inequality. The other tactic that King applied in fighting for the rights of the Black community was boycotting. The first significant boycott that King was involved in was the 1955 bus boycotts (Hayes, 2019). The boycotts were going on in Alabama Montgomery, where buses were segregated racially. King was the leader of the Montgomery campaign.
One Issue in the American society where there is the Need to Promote Civil Rights
Today even though the black middle class has developed to almost 10 percent of all African American households, the rate of unemployment is still double that of the whites (Oskin, 2013). Only a small percentage of the children of the whites live in regions that are concentrated with poverty in comparison to the more significant proportion of the black children, as provided by the 2012 report from the Institute of Economic Policy (Oskin, 2013). Many policymakers have languages that are concentrated on saving the middle class. According to the Brookings Institution report, the population of the Americans who are poor and living below the state poverty line has grown. Unlike the times of King, there is no big push to push the effects of poverty in America.
The Discrimination that Still Exists with Respect to the Group and Issue
Racial discrimination is still pervasive in many nations in the world. Researches have proved that resumes that have names that sound to belong to the whites get more callbacks when compared to names that look black. This is enough proof to show that racial discrimination still exists in the United States. The probability of a black person to be unemployed is twice that of a white individual (Quillian et al. 2017). Racial based employment may be the effect of the differences. Studies have also discovered that federal employers and contractors who list ‘Equal Job Opportunities’ is their job advertisements are as much likely to discriminate as other bosses.