Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., advocate nonviolent passive resistance as a primary means of achieving civil rights?

Question 9 options:

He was afraid that confrontation would cost the movement followers

He believed it was moral and would also win the hearts of whites

Other civil rights leaders advised him to use this strategy

Whites were responding to African American protests with violence.

He believed it was moral and would also win the hearts of whites

The correct answer is He believed it was moral and would also win the hearts of whites

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great pacifist leader. He fought incessantly for the principles of freedom and equality, and for civil rights in America. For the peaceful fight against racial prejudice, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. But the trajectory of one of the most important and respected black political leaders was brief. Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39, by a white segregationist.

Luther King's fight for civil rights in the United States began in the episode known as the Montgomery Miracle in 1955. Then president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, he led, along with the rest of the community, a boycott of the bus companies in Montgomery. city, after a discriminatory act against a black passenger.