Social movements and their impact on public policy: An elaboration of Martin Luther King within the framework Civil Right Movements

Social movements are different forms of action, which takes place by a cohesive group of people, under one identity and a united goal. Based on their goal orientation, social movements are new agents of their milieu, and their effects are direct with changes and victory of demanded goals. The impact of social movements on public policy making processes is direct and influential. In such regard, the present work undertakes the basic question how new social movements devise new mechanisms to become determinants of public policy along with a thorough analysis of theoretical discussion embedded in. In order to handle the challenge state, the effort shall dwell upon the be evidence of the role played by social movements in public policy making, the Civil Rights struggle of African- Americans in 1960s under the revolutionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leadership could be studied as case study. Settling upon the Civil Rights Movement, the work shall elucidate and elaborate the role of solidarity in action, a mastered leadership to form a new identity, and drive the organization through their path with a unique framework.