The founding fathers and mothers fourth in the revolution to liberate the people of this great nation and that is how they made history. Because of the suffering some of them underwent especially the black Americans or African Americans and they started fighting for their rights. Tough American life forced then to fight for their rights and eventually history made them. The revolution was to be remembered many years later expressing the heroic deeds of the founding fathers of the nation. Wood … (109) notes that “This is one of the greatest revolutions the world has ever known; it unleashed the social forces that transformed the American society in the years between 1760 and 1820, the change from a monarchial, deferential and static society to a liberal, democratic and commercial one. It was a revolution of the mind, in which the concept of equality, democracy and private interests were grasped by hundreds of thousands of Americans, transformed a country nearly overnight”. However, after several years Martin Luther King used a non violence but assertive approach in the 1960s to fight for their rights. The non violence gained momentum from a go-slow to complete boycotts which paralyzed every business and operations in the United States of America. This approach forced leaders from states to the central government to respect the rights of every American regardless of race and status. Martin Luther King who was born in the 1920s had gone through the great depression which had impacted every person negatively as King & Carson (2001) say, “the great depression has extended disastrous arms to every corner of the nation and household”. This problem had double trouble to the black population and every passing day Martin Luther King Jr. learned a lesson which forced him to fight and stand for social justice.  

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