USA at Home - Civil Rights Movement, 1957

Martin Luther King

-King was chosen as leader of the MIA because he had been minister at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church- he had not been there long enough to become close to particular local organisation

-During the dispute he helped to organise the carpools and when he was prevented from taking out local insurance for the vehicles, he went as far as using Lloyds of London.

SCLC

- The SCLC (Southern Christian…