This week on the Lectures and History podcast, Boise State University History Professor Jill Gill examines Martin Luther King Jr's political strategies during the civil rights movement.

She looks beyond King's role as a moral leader to explore how he built coalitions, used nonviolent protest and

pressured political leaders to advance civil rights legislation from the Montgomery bus

boycott through the years leading up to his assassination in 1968.

More after this.

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Well, let's get started so gang we were talking about on monday how making change making systemic change on really tough old issues like racial discrimination is super duper tough

and we were looking at different kinds of tactics and strategies that people like racial discrimination is super duper tough.

And we were looking at different kinds of tactics and strategies that people were trying to make change in the middle part of the 20th century.

We did Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

We talked about the NAACP.

We've talked about the student nonviolent coordinating committee, right?

Martin Luther King is going to settle on a fairly successful strategy,

his winning strategy, because he's going to accomplish something that people,

I mean, had been kind of left on the back burner for, I don't know, since Reconstruction,

trying to get the 14th and 15th amendments enforced. Remember, the federal government was laying off those after Reconstruction was abandoned.

And so he's going to come up with a winning strategy to get the Civil Rights Act of 64 and

the voting rights act of 65 passed. And those are the things that basically, where the federal government is saying,

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