How effective a leader was Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights campaign?

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How effective a leader was Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights campaign?

Martin Luther King was extremely Pacifist in leading the Civil rights campaign. He was devoted Christian, and a family man. His Idea of protest in the civil rights campaign was quite simple, to use peaceful, non-violent methods to try gain social equality for blacks. He was the leader of the SCLC, (southern Christian leadership conference). His protest were mainly based in the south of America, where there was more Social and Political problems compared to the north.

Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister in the town of Montgomery in the year of 1956. This would be the starting point of Kings leadership to civil rights campaign. In 1956, a woman, Rosa Parks, refused to leave her seat on a bus for a white person. This in effect started the 'Montgomery bus boycott'. At first, King did not lead the boycott; he was approached by the NAACP to keep the protest peaceful, as King was involved in the local church. However, the local community wished for King to take lead of the boycott; this partly due to his influence he had in Montgomery.