Martin Luther King Jr.
In this report, I am going to talk about a man who was a great civil rights leader in this Nation. A man who dedicated his life to trying to end racism, poverty, and war. He was a fighter for equality among blacks and whites alike. He changed the lives of many people, whites and blacks alike, and was a hero to hundreds of thousands of people. This man is Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, and learned about racial discrimination at an early age. When he was 5 years old, his most frequent playmate was a white boy whos father owned a neighborhood grocery store. One day, out of the blue, the boy’s parents told Martin to go away ...
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though Martin did not like these rules, he could not change it as a child. Even with them though, he still managed to live a normal life. He loved church and reading the bible. He decided to become a minister very early in his life. That dream was not far away for him. Because he liked to read so much, it made him very smart in school and he skipped two grades. As King learned about white mans laws, he tried to think of different ways to try and change them. This is what lead him to becoming a minister. So at the age of 15 the deacons of his church licensed him to minister. He then went to Morehouse College which was in Atlanta. He gave his first speech at the age of 18 at Ebenezer Church. Many people came to see his sermon, and he surprised everyone, giving a speech that even impressed his dad, the reverend of the church. He then went to Crozer to study to become a minister. He was for the most part accepted by the majority of whites as their equal. He got high grades there, and ...
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the lives of the boycott leaders. King told the protesters not to fight back, because he was a nonviolent man. The blacks in Montgomery stayed off the buses for more than a year. Finally, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Segregation on public buses was illegal. (Jim Haskins The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot) "
Because this Non-Violent protest worked, Dr. King and other ministers believed that they could bring about more change like it the same way. So in 1957 King formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to campaign for civil rights in the South. "In the spring of 1957 the SCLC, NAACP, and Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters joined ...
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