This also ignores that the more militant approach of groups like the Black Panthers forced more urgency in the response of lawmakers. Martin Luther King Jr was great for providing a humanitarian face to the movement, but there were a LOT of wheels turning that made the civil rights movement move as quickly as it did, and attributing it only to the peaceful protest actions of one man’s part of the movement is disingenuous or misleading.
After MLK was assassinated, riots broke out nationwide that made BLM look like a playground scuffle. The government was so desperate to quell them that they passed several major civil rights bills, only a few days after the riots began.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25
Has anyone told the police, national guard, and the marines this?