Many people now thank him for all he did. People will always remember Martin Luther King Jr for all that he did to bring people together. Even our people in our community just doing the job they love.
There are other people who show what heroism is not, by doing crimes and acts of evil. But, anybody can turn into a hero, they can just do selfless acts of kindness for the greater good Hero 's try to make the world a better place, just like Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.
Another example of heroism in Abraham Lincoln he helped abolish slavery. Martin Luther King Jr took one of the main roles in the Civil Rights Movement as in saying in the quote he used for Americans but different races all around the world. Martin Luther King inspired people to do things back then and now modern day just like he inspired the bus boycott in the Civil Rights Movement standing up for equal rights.
The Civil Rights Movement gained attention and respect in most states. It was a shameful situation. People would talk. All that a man had back then, all that he was, was his honor, his name, That is only a small portion of what he did and is still a lot to accompish for just a normal man.
He made our country better and tried his very best to make the people happy. He was selfless and caring. The final reason why Thomas Jefferson was the strongest President to live was because he made a huge impact on our society. According to the article, He impacted the educational systems of the growing country. Many know of Dr. Life nowadays has made some improvements but, Martin would be pretty disappointed to see what 's going on in the world right know.
Somehow Dr. King used his abilities to somewhat unite America. Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln were both very famous and respected in their own way. He had a brother, Alfred and a sister, Christine. Both his father and grandfather were ministers. His mother was a school teacher who taught him to read even before he started school.
Martin was a very good student. He even skipped two grades. He had many hobbies like reading and singing and like every boy of his age he got interested in basketball and football. After he graduated from college Martin Luther King got married and decided to become a minister , like his father. Martin Luther King saw how badly black people were treated and during the s he became involved in the Civil Rights movement.
This incident made many blacks angry. Martin Luther King became the president of this boycott. He continued working for the black people in America. He was the driving force behind important events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington, which helped bring about new legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Day, a U. This area was one of the most prominent and prosperous African American neighborhoods in the country. Afterward, his father served the church for the next four decades with Martin Luther, Jr acting as co-pastor in the s. King attended segregated public schools where he excelled and graduated from high school at the age of In , he was admitted to Morehouse College, where both his father and maternal grandfather attended, and he studied medicine and law. After graduating in , he attended the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania , for three years.
He was elected president of a predominantly white senior class and was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree in With a fellowship he won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University and received his doctorate in The couple married on June 18, , and would eventually have two sons and two daughters. By that time, he was a member of the executive committee and an active participant of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP , the leading organization of its kind in the nation.
The protest began after Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus and was arrested on December 1, In the highly segregated city, activists coordinated a bus boycott that continued for days.
The protest placed a severe economic strain on the public transit system and downtown business owners, and Montgomery found itself at the center of the struggle for civil rights in America. Finally, in November , the Supreme Court ruled that segregated seating on public buses was unconstitutional. Acting as the spokesperson for the boycott, King entered the national spotlight as an inspirational proponent of organized, nonviolent resistance.
Unfortunately, he also became a target for white supremacists, who firebombed his home in January. In , Dr.
He then moved his family back to his home town of Atlanta, Georgia, where he joined his father as co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. However, he also continued to organize nonviolent protests against unequal treatment of African-American people. King survived to use the attempted assassination to reinforce his dedication to nonviolence:.
As the spokesman of the SCLC, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over 1, times in the next decade. During this time, he planned drives to register Black voters, conferred with President John F.
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