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Martin Luther King Jr.

Summary

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American civil-rights leader who, in The People Power Manual tradition, is one of the three named authors of a stage-model for nonviolence campaigns — alongside thinkers/george-lakey and thinkers/mahatma-gandhi. The manual’s Campaign Strategy Guide dedicates one of its named handouts to “Martin Luther King Jr’s six stage campaign planning framework” [source: people-power-manual].

Key idea in this wiki

  • The People Power Manual’s Campaign Strategy Guide includes a dedicated handout — “Martin Luther King Jr’s six stage campaign planning framework” — alongside the Lakey and Gandhi handouts, treating King’s framework as one of the three parallel stage-models the manual teaches [source: people-power-manual].
  • The same Campaign Strategy Guide pairs King’s stage-model with Bill Moyer’s “Four roles in successful social movements (Bill Moyer 1990)” and “Eight Stages of Social Movement Success (Bill Moyer 1990)”, composing the manual’s working canon of frame-by-stage frameworks [source: people-power-manual].
  • King’s framework sits in the wiki’s the-campaign-cycle and civil-resistance pages as one of the parallel stage-traditions alongside the bill-moyer MAP cycles and the thinkers/george-lakey stages-of-movement model.

Why campaigners read him

King’s six-stage campaign-planning framework is one of the three stage-canon entries the People Power Manual treats as parallel — campaigners read it because the manual teaches it as the working text for large nonviolent campaigns, distinct from Moyer’s movement-development lens [source: people-power-manual]. King is also the historical reference point most contemporary nonviolent campaigners cite for the moral framing of a campaign’s demand and for the lineage of disciplined nonviolence under repression — the wiki points readers from the-campaign-cycle to King alongside Lakey and Gandhi as the three named frameworks. The wiki records King’s stage-model as practitioner literature, not as primary biographical source, and recommends following King’s broader corpus for the moral and rhetorical stratum of his work.

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Last verified: 2026-06-23