The Impact of Martin Luther King’s Religious Life During the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s in Charles Johnson’sDreamer

ABSTRACT: This paper shows how Charles Johnson‟simaginative storyintertwines with that ofMartin LutherKing‟s religious lifeas one of the Blacks‟ leaders in the Civil RightsMovement of the 1950s and 1960s. Itis infact, theanalysisof King‟s nonviolent struggle for an equalitarian American society.His religious lifehasundoubtedly influenced the institutionalized disequilibriumof common considerations based on the inequalityand injustice between Blacks and Whites in the United States. This means that King‟speaceful fight for justice isbased on hisfaith in God, constant prayers, and love for their enemies in the United States.

Keywords: Religious life, Injustice, nonviolent struggle, prayers, Civil Rights.