Racism, injustice, poverty, hate, and other social phenomena that have negative meanings and negative impacts on our world are not new. They are rather old ones with updated meanings and impact. These issues are as old as humanity is. It is rather irritating that we, humans, have to deal with such negative issues. Our world is becoming complicated with all new developments and technologies and so are those phenomena. They are getting reshaped and updated structures.
Racism is among the most obvious phenomenon in the world and among the hardest to stand against or to cope with. Humanity needs real heroes to stand against racism. We need heroes to advocate for the oppressed ones when they suffer from injustice because of racism. Martin Luther King Jr. was among the most influential civic heroes who stood against racism in the US. He did it in a period when racism was strongest in the US (Carson et al., 2021).
Martin Luther King Jr. became an iconic name for fighting racism in nonviolent ways. He stood against racism at a time when the legal system in the US was enhancing racism and race differences. The most important aspect of King’s stand is the nonviolent movement that he initiated in the US. He fought against racial injustice in a segregated country where black people weren’t considered as worthy as white ones (Luther King Jr., 1964).
Martin Luther King’s movement has not only influenced the US but rather changed the legal system in the US and impacted the whole world. It resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave power to federal governments to imply desegregation in public-owned facilities (Carson et al., 2021).
Tragically, King had to pay the price of his movement and his heroic stand. He was assassinated in 1968 because of his struggle and campaign to advocate for people who suffered from racial injustice (Carson et al., 2021).
Martin Luther King Jr. is not the only civic hero who stood against all those negative social phenomena. There are many heroes in our world who struggled against different kinds of injustice. They have contributed to the world in a way that changed our world into a better place. Their contributions are so important that without their struggles and fights against injustice the world would have been rather a worse place than it is today.
Sources
Carson, C., and Lewis, David L. (2021, March 31). Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Luther-King-Jr
Luther King Jr., M., 1964. The Nobel Peace Prize 1964. [online] NobelPrize.org. Available at: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/