Many individuals define the civil rights movement to be the collective efforts of African Americans to secure equal access to opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of a U.S. citizen. One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action, as a method for equality is, Martin Luther King Jr. King was an American clergyman and one of the principal leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States and a …showed first 75 words of 2204 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2204 total…Books, 1961. Faber, Doris & Faber, Harold. Martin Luther King. New York: Julian Messner, 1986. Fairclough, Adam. Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 1995. Jakoubek, Robert. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989. King, Martin Luther 28 Aug 1968. "I Have A Dream." Available from world wide website: http://www.mecca.org/~crights/dream.html. Siebold, Thomas. Martin Luther King Jr. (people who made history).New York: GreenHaven Press, 2001.