The chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love. King's notion of nonviolence had six key principles.First, one can resist evil without resorting to violence. The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Martin Luther King, Jr. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Nonviolence is a love-centered way of thinking, speaking, acting, and engaging that leads to personal, cultural and societal transformation. In the mid1950s, King led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through the means of peaceful protest. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. That is only partly true, however. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, led the lobbying effort to drum up public support.