1 Martin Luther King Jr. was an angry young man who hated the segregated world of the American South and the injustices he saw inflicted on African Americans all over the nation. In adulthood, he came to feel that anger offered no solution to the problems that he and other African Anlericails f~ced.What made hiin change his mind? What were the roots of the philosophy that he adopted and used to lead the civil rights rnovement of the 1950s and 1960s! How did King give African Anlericans a sense of self-worth 2nd the tools to achieve their aims?