... was searching for a way to put an end to the white racism and segregation in Montgomery, he read speeches and essays by Gandhi and Thoreau on civil disobedience, and began to discuss the idea of a nonviolent resistance movement with his wife, Coretta King (Sitkoff 48). Determined to devise a strategy ... effectiveness of nonviolence. King did not believe that negotiation and judicial action were enough to end segregation and racism. In his career as a civil rights activist, negotiation had been his first attempt at making a difference. In all his attempts to solve the problems verbally, h...

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