Thoreau's belief of Civil Disobedience has a long, distinguished history. It has lead to many influenced movements, such as the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. This movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a very powerful man of his time. He lived a very good life but with some hardships along the way. The reason he started his movement was because of Thoreau's and Gandhi's ideas of nonviolence and have a love for God. King and his followers held rallies, marches, and strikes to get other people involved and to inform them of all the hatred and discrimination the black population was receiving. In this paper, I will talk about the triumphs and tribulations of what King went through to get to where we are today.
             The movement began around 1956. It was to free the blacks from discrimination but without violence. "Believing in the guidance of a personal God and equipped with the techniques of nonviolence," King believed that he could solve any problem that might arise.(Beck) In December of 1955 Rosa Parks was standing strong and would not get up for a white man. She was then arrested. King did the only thing they could do without violence, they started a boycott on the Montgomery buses. The bus line would make black people either sit in the back or stand up do that a white man could sit and be comfortable. They felt that that was wrong. After that event, King spoke and the Holy Street Baptist Church and "he spoke for so many people when he declared that they were 'tired of being segregated and humiliated'."(Beck)
             Later on King wrote a book called Stride Toward Freedom. It explains how Thoreau's and Gandhi's ideas of Christian love and nonviolent methods guided the movement. King uses six keys points to explain his philosophy of nonviolence. 1. King says not to be coward; we should stand up to fight against injustice, but with nonviolence. 2. We do not look to de...