Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King was trying to explain what he called ôthe revolution,ö which means Southern blacks working together for the first time in a non-violent but carefully organized way to achieve social justice. Dr. King maintains that in the summer of 1963, the blacks of America decided that they could make themselves free. ôThe summer of 1963,ö he wrote, ôwas a revolution because it changed the face of Americaö (107). The book shows in part how Dr. King achieved his overall goals in the face of brutal opposition from the Birmingham police and civil authorities. Basically his plan was to boycott the buses and businesses until Birmingham city officials consented to change the laws and customs of the Jim Crow south. Although it was essentially an economic boycott, the crusade was based on Christian principles. Dr. King gave the bus boycott crusade a moral underpinning that local blacks could both believe in and relate to. They

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