Glen Loury is an American author and a champion of civil rights movement. He is widely recognized for his role on the attempts to re-focus the civil rights movement. Martin Luther king Jr. is an American activist, leader, and a clergyman. He is widely recognized for his African-American Civil Rights Movement (King, 2010).
Douglass (1852) is an American writer, social reformer, and orator. Together with King (2010), Douglass pressed the grievances and demands of blacks to the American Nation. In this paper, Loury’s argument is different from those of Douglas and King when they all pushed for civil America (Douglass, 1852; King, 2010).
Loury addressed the challenge to liberals and conservatives that was in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. He focused on the struggle for freedom and equality among the Central Americans.
Some of the issues that Loury championed for include the unfulfilled hopes, social pathologies, competing visions, ideological barrier, political quagmire, needed commitment, one ingredient for progress, permanent victims, double standards, wrong of the past, self fulfilling prophecy, societal paradox, and profound tragedy (Loury, 2010).
Loury (2010) found it difficult to sell the idea of self help and reliance among the black because of the opposition he received within the black community, his black critics claimed that his arguments were instrumental in serving the interest of those who were plotting for ways of marginalizing the poor blacks.
Lorry was limited and greatly agonized the wastage of human potential in the ghetto (Loury, 2010). He only had ideologies that were not enough to be put into action without the government’s implementation (Lorry, 2010).
Douglass rhetorical strategy was similar to Martin Luther King’s. He focused on ways of pricking the conscience of the White Americans for their tolerance of slavery and the racial cast in America. Among the problems Douglass faced in his quest for liberation was slavery (Douglass, 1852).
He managed to escape from slavery in Maryland to Massachusetts where he became one of the most popular orators of the North Abolitionist Movement. Through oratory, he managed to concur the minds of blacks to the realization of equity and fair treatment (Douglass, 1852).
Martin Luther King Jr. was best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights, being a clergyman he passed his message on abolition of slave trade, racism, and eradication of racial segregation and slavery through preaching and crusades. He also wrote manuscripts (King, 2010).
It is also worth noting that at one time King experienced great difficulty in completing the manuscript of Stride Towards Freedom: The Montgomery Story. In writing this book King had to rely upon assistant from many other people. The people boycotted working on the book because of boycott movement that was currently going on. Martin Luther also experienced opposition from the black press.
He greatly faced opposition from some black leaders who felt threatened by his ascent to power and the constant threat king posed on the white race (King, 2010). These Afro-American who were patriotic in achieving civil rights encountered lots of problems which included slavery, warrants of arrests, and civil war.
In conclusion, Glen Loury, Douglass, and Martin Luther Jr. were spearheading freedom and justice to their people. This has resulted in the equality that the blacks are currently enjoying in the Central America and the whole world.
References
Douglass, F. (1852, July 5). What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Retrieved from https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
King, M.L. (2010). Letter from a Birmingham Jail. In K.M. Dolbeare & M. Cummings (Eds.), American Political Thought (pp. 481-487). Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Loury, G.C. (2010). Achieving the “Dream”: A Challenge to Liberals and
Conservatives. In K.M. Dolbeare & M. Cummings (Eds.), American Political Thought (pp. 559-668). Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.