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Martin Luther King Jr's Leadership Style

The purpose of this research is to examine the leadership style of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context in which Dr. King's actions as a leader of the civil rights movement emerged and then to discuss the strategies he used to motivate people to support his ideas, as well as the accomplishments that came about because of his leadership ability and style, with a view toward evaluating the basis on which King can be considered an effective leader.

It is impossible to separate the leadership qualities of Dr. King, which defined his career, from his personal biography and from the history of race relations in the United States, not least because the leadership style that King was to adopt was dramatically different from what might have been expected of him. At the birth of Michael Luther King, Jr. in 1929, Michael Luther King, Sr. was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia and also a member of what has been aptly called "black bourgeois Atlanta" (Lewis, 1970, p. 8). That condition meant that even though Ebenezer Baptist served a less wealthy demographic segment than, say, the Negro Episcopalian or Congregational churches, young King was "insulated against the most brutal aspects of Southern bigotry" (Lewis, 1970, p. 11). King was a product and example of a privileged class. In 1935, King, Sr. changed his first name and that of his son to Martin, presumably to achieve a properly evangelical ring. "Daddy" King, as he was called, achieved and cultivated a reputation as a leader and civil rights advocate in Atlanta, before civil rights achieved the status of national concern (C.S. King, 1969):

Daddy King expected that son Martin would inherit the mantle at Ebenezer Baptist, but younger King took a pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. It was in Montgomery that King's career as a leading advocate of social change took sha...

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