our destiny. Martin Luther King launched the American Civil Rights movement in the 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott as the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. He was

later named to the board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in

1957. His book Why We Can’t Wait outlines the important events of Civil Rights in the early

1960’s. Why We Can’t Wait centers on his Letter from Birmingham Jail and is bookended with

an historical account of the events leading to his arrest of April 12, 1963. The year 1963 marked

the 100-year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King asks two

questions: why should we wait for emancipation? And aware of what White Americans were

doing to Black Americans, “What is the Negro doing for himself?” (King p. 8) Martin Luther

King concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding on the current campaign, what his

hopes are for the future, why he wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, why the campaign was the

right thing to do, why America was a better place in January of 1964 than it was in Jan

moral and religious strengths. Martin Luther King believed that “militancy is also the father of

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