Martin Luther King Jr.

King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. (1899–1984) and Alberta Williams King (1904–1974).[1] King 's legal name at birth was Michael King,[2] and his father was also born Michael King, but the elder King changed his and his son 's names following a 1934 trip to Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin. It was during this time he chose to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther.[3][unreliable source?][4] King 's parents were both African-American, and he also had Irish ancestry through his paternal great-grandfather.[5][6][7]

Martin Luther King Jr. once said "A riot is the language of the unheard." The Oka Confrontation, commonly known as the Oka Crisis, is yet another hardship faced and is continuing to be faced by Native Canadians. Specifically, the Mohawk. First Nations were always treated like second class citizens in North America. When their land rights were threatened, they decided that enough was enough and that they were not going to accept this anymore. It was about time they were respected. The Oka Crisis was part of the revolution of the First Nations as Canadians and as equals. They were not going to be pushed around anymore and accept what the white people laid out in front of them, they were there to make their own decisions and keep what is rightfully theirs. After years of oppression, this was the last straw.

In the 1960s, the idea of equal rights for African Americans citizens began to take hold in the United States At the head of this major movement were two major leaders: Martin Luther King Jr. Despite the fact that they had the common goal of racial equality, they had opposing views on how to obtain it. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that Civil Rights should be obtained peacefully, through methods such as boycotts, sit-ins, and marches. While Malcom X believed that such a thing should be obtained at all costs, with violence or otherwise. While many blacks found themselves divided between the two. I believe that Martin Luther King Jr. 's made the most sense.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes this letter as a response to the clergymen, who criticized and impeded the nonviolent campaign led by King in Birmingham. In his long letter, Marin Luther King presents a good deal of rational reasons for why the nonviolent campaign should be done in Southern America. He also demonstrates his unmovable determination to accomplish the goal of this nonviolent campaign. Obviously, King intends to awake the clergymen and other opponents by this touching letter.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr 's words on April 3, 1968 at Mason Temple in Memphis Tennessee speaks through the ages and still grips me with an eerie feeling of prophetic conviction. King 's stirring words that night were classical pieces of rhetoric that will be preserved as a place mark for the civil rights movement. When a sick, but yet powerful King bellowed out to the audience "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promise land!"; he was eerily suggesting that his life may possibly be ending soon but the movement continuing. This part of the speech is moving but yet stirring, and to many of the people in attendance that night, disturbing. Here is this iconic figure telling a packed congregation of weary, yet persistent people that he may not make the journey into the land that produces a brighter day and better opportunities. This likens to the biblical story of Moses. After leading the Children of Israel out of bondage for so long and tirelessly working to get them to the land of Canaan Moses is told by God that he will not be the one to lead them into the "land flowing with milk and honey" and that he will not enter therein at all.

1 What has been your journey, the key experiences, and decisions that have brought you to this point? (2000 min characters, 3000 max)

As a child, my first memories with race were when my mother was trying to integrate more Native American representation in my early media. However, the lack of Native American representation in children’s books and movies made her search to find fitting and accurate role models for me difficult. In the end, I only had Disney’s Pocahontas and a series of books about Kaya, an American Girl doll. Although she wanted me to learn more about my Native American heritage, these two examples were the only ones I had of Native Americans. At around the same age, I also learned about racism at school on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The teachers taught us about segregation, the rights that Martin Luther King, Jr. worked to secure for black Americans,

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a key leader and activist in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He fought against racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. Many Americans of all races admired Martin Luther King as a symbol of leadership and what real movements look like. The Black Lives Matter movement started after the non-guilty verdict of the killing of Trayvon Martin. It campaigns against police brutality, calling for racial justice and pushing for the progress of our civil rights in the 21st century. Since this era is much more technologically advanced then back then, the type of racially motivated acts is different from those committed during the civil rights era, but the core problem of systemic racism remains the same. That being said, despite the differences the Black Lives Matter movement should be considered as the new Civil Rights movement and would undoubtedly be supported by Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once stated, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” The same dictum can be applied when analyzing the challenges associated with religious bias and LGBT inequality, especially within the black church. These issues should have a pronounced platform in the black church, which has had the lived experience of challenging oppressive societal systems that were anchored in religious rhetoric. In the same vein, the LGBT community endures an exorbitant amount of hate via a religious interpretation regarding what is morally proper.

Throughout history, people have been motivated to spur into action. Years of recorded record tell how Moses, a shepherd of his father-in-law’s sheep, led millions of Israelites to freedom through the midst of the Red Sea on dry land and away from centuries of the slavery they had known in Egypt. Scores of books explain how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young Atlanta preacher, mobilized citizens across the country to come together in peaceful protest to attempt to undo the iniquities of the Jim Crow South. Though these two scenarios are separated by distance and time, the one thing that intertwines the two tales is that they both answered the call to leadership and ebbed indelible places in history, respectively, through the ways in which they managed. Regardless to whether a manager walks with kings or works beside peasants, there are some commonalities that he or she will face.

This theme of unarmed truth and unconditional love is also one of the major themes in the poem On Being Brought from Africa to America which was written by Phillis Wheatley in 1768 while she lived in America. This poem is about a slave who was brought from Africa to America. Mercy converts the slave to Christianity, which she did not know anything about while she was in Africa. The poem contemplates the writer’s belief that anyone, despite your

I love your choice of book for your primary non-fiction book. My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I absolutely love that book. I was subbing in a first grade classroom on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the teacher asked me to read it and discuss his life and accomplishments. It blew my mind about how much prior knowledge the students’ already had about his life and about other important figures during that time period (i.e. Rosa Park).

King and by doing so, won the support of 75% blacks. King urged for Kennedy

“We are not makers of history, we are made by history”- Martin Luther King Jr.

For as long as groups of people found the need for leaders, whether it was in armed conflict or for managing the needs of the community and organizing the activities of a business, scholars and others have sought to identify what qualities make for good a leaders. Many believe that they know a great leader when they see them but they may be unable to say why in some cases. Across time there have been many leaders, who by dint of the charisma, were able to marshal millions people for follow them in their cause as was the case for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Mohandas Gandhi. Most began with the trait approach which sought to identify which characteristic great leader had. Later study moved to an assessment of the skills required for good leadership which could then be taught to others who were assigned leadership positions. In the search for a single method that would cover all situations, many studies had found that there is no one best way that covered all situations and that leadership style had to match the various situations as they occurred. Situation Leadership Theory (SLT) takes this search further by incorporating the motivating factors and abilities of the workers into account and asks for leaders to vary their style of leadership based on the combination of these two factor in order to higher worker effectiveness.