Question

discuss how the Christian faith and the Gandhian technique followed by Martin Luther King led to the desegregation of Montgomery city bus lines​

Answer 1

Martin Luther King understood that it was both morally and practically correct to use Nonviolence and therefore he believed in his Christian doctrine of love while operating through the Gandhian method of non-violence.

• Through the use of these two techniques and by ensuring non-violence on the path to liberation he believed that it was the most potent weapon available to oppressed people.
• The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery Alabama after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white rider. During this period of segregation Black individuals were to sit in the back of the bus and Rosa Parks's braver started an entire revolution.
• This protest led to the forming of the Montgomery Improvement Association which elected Martin Luther King as its president. Martin Luther King understood the need for non-violence in this volatile time period and hence incorporated his pastoral Christian background and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi into his work.
• The protest ended with a US Supreme Court decision stating at segregation in buses was unconstitutional.
• Martin Luther King was so nonviolent that he did not even assign bodyguards when his life was threatened and his house was bombed.

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