Who really did more for civil rights movment? Dr. king or the white man?

Answer 1

The way you ask the question suggests that you're not really interested in the correct answer but rather try to calm down the inner voice in you.

Hey, take it easy and RELAX! There are people who care about you, OK?

Have a nice day!

Answer 2

The progress made during the civil rights movement is all being unraveled now.

Dr. King surely did more for the civil rights movement and he was killed because he was not only affecting the discontent of the black people in this country. He was starting to turn the white man on to the fact that we are all as a people exploited and abused.

There are varying degrees with how badly, that is surely true, but when Dr. King turned his sights on the war on Vietnam, the political establishment had to get rid of him.

Dr. King certainly did more.

Answer 3

Wow...that's a good questions, but I would have to say, of the two - Dr. King. The "white man" as you played certain parts, but when you find that racism and racial ambiguity still exists at the level it does...it really makes me think. Ok---some white people helped, but did they really carry the ideals they expressed to the black public to their family and friends AND truly stand up for what they believed in. I doubt that the same white men cried in OUTRAGE the way that the black panthers did when they heard racial slurs, knew who was in the clan, and heard about decent, law abiding, black citizens being lynched. Did they march right up to the executive of the public transportation company and say - "Ok...enough is enough"? I don't think so. They may not have approved, but non-approval is not the same as standing up.

I agree with the perspective that Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party did more for the movement than anything. Have you ever watched the ENTIRE movie or read the book, other publications on them? Man oh man, they truly showed AmeriKKKa that blacks would no longer stand by and not protect what they had a natural, God given right to. That idea really did spread throughout the nation as they weren't the only ones.

Answer 4

I agree with the first answer. However to expand:-

Dr King, he gave it voice, credibility and persona. He was the civil rights movement, and his assassination is possibly one of the greatest set-backs to the USA in the last 50 years.

When the boycott of the buses was on in Alabama, the owner of the buses was white and clearly loosing money. His son, a Vet' opened a gas station, Dr King mentioned it in a speech; the black community supported the gas station, to the extent there were practically queues to use it. The thing was he thought about everybody and the impact on them. A truly great man who showed or shamed the average white American into seeing the way. His like will not be seen again for a long time.

Answer 5

The white man created civil rights but for the white people who were the majority in control at the time. For example, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, but they had no where to go and no money or food to go anywhere. They even had to sneak at getting educated. And the Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, and Central and South American slaves? What about them? They weren't even acknowledged. So, therefore, I would have to say that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. got more accomplished for more people, including whites. Because of him, the government had to implement Special Education, which includes Bilingual Education. However, the government is finding ways to destroy these programs by saying that "Immerse, People! Immerse!" That way, these low income, low social class people will never be able to excel or improve their education. And since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, other rights have evolved: women's, gay's, children's, to name a few. So, yes, Dr. King did more because it encompassed a much wider population.

Answer 6

The white man, It was world war II and a nation that needed the help of all its people that really started people of color realizing that they deserved more. The returning veterans had learned many skills and were not satisfied with going back to their old lives, it took time and the sacifice of many but the old Jim crows laws and other legal racism were finally overturned. Dr King was a great leader and his non violent protest policy was brilliant but without warped leaders like Hitler to take on the world with blind ambition the civil rights movement might not have gotten strong enough to overcome the many obstacles for several more decades.

Answer 7

Tsar Nicolas led the civilized world in abolishing slavery.

On the home front it looks like the founders put the basics in the constitution. It took the Spanish American war to pull it together. and Martin Luther King to scatter it to the wind.

Most white people are pro civil rights; but they also resent being told what to do. Remember over a million Northern men died fighting to free the slaves of the South.

Freeing the slaves opened the door for cheap Irish labor. It cost less was unregulated and business prospered from it. Slaves were required by law to be housed, feed, clothed, and provided basic health service of the time. Irish labor lived in tenements crowded with dozens of other laborers. No food shelter or health care required.

Business freed the slaves for increased profits.

Answer 8

properly that's impossible to honor all the a lot of human beings the two black and white that contributed to the long warfare - the warfare that maintains immediately. So what to do? there's a black background month. maximum cities national have named cities and parks after Dr. MLK. Is that merely an attempt to make up for discrimination? perchance. even nonetheless there are lots of people who're credited for doing issues that took the efforts of many to succeed (Abe Lincoln) and there are people who're the face of a few thing that they contributed little to (Al Gore - Nobel peace prize)so that's puzzling to be disillusioned with regard to the emphasis on the contributions of Martin Luther King. even nonetheless he became in no way the only man or woman who contributed to the warfare nor the main extreme, without him there may be no equality. by ability of how - super question. and persons right here ought to calm down. You worded it properly and that i'm not sure why those persons are hating you.

Answer 9

It was the three little girls who lost their lives while being blown up in church . It was Rosa Parks who risked lynching and Gods know what else because she thought that it was ridiculous to get out her seat for someone else after she had slaved away in some white mans kitchen all day. Rosa Parks started the movement and Dr King was divinely chosen to be the maryr for the cause. there had to national attention drawn to the cause before anyone else could volunteer white or otherwise.

Answer 10

Hmmm, that depends on your definitions. It was mostly white men (Republicans mostly) that passed most of the civil rights legislation we have today. NOTE: Senator Gore (Al Gore's father) and Senator (KKK) Byrd (WV) were ardent opposer's of these laws.

But I don't think you can diminish to contributions of people like Dr. King, and Rosa Parks for forced the nation to have the discussion in the first place. Without their leadership Congress would have likely done nothing on its own.

Answer 11

Neither. I would say the Black Power movement and the Black Panther group because they shocked the US into seeing that, suprise, suprise, Black people were upset that they're oppressed. The white man was scared and in turn listened to Dr. King because they liked the non-violent message better.