Then write 1-2 paragraphs describing one individual you believe has made a significant contribution to florida and united states history. in your response, explain why this individual's contribution was significant.

He became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race. Healso was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation.

In December, 1955 He accepted the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, . The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

Explanation:

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook