Adriana Castillo
Professor Popowski
United States History II 1302
August 5th, 2015
A Research Paper on Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael King Jr. Was born to parents Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King's family has quite an extensive religious background, which starts with his grandfather, A.D Williams. In 1893, A.D he revives the small but strong congregation of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He later married Jennie Celeste Parks and they had a single child together, named Alberta. Alberta would end up getting married to Michael King Sr., a man product of a sharecropping family in a very poor community. This lead to the couple living with Alberta's parents for some time until A.D
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After he was elected the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization which was responsible for the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955 to 1956 (381 days). Which led to the Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation is illegal, ensuring victory for the boycott. MLK was arrested numerous times for his participation in civil rights activities. King will go on to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with thepurpose to fight segregation and achieve basic civil rights. On May 17, 1957, Dr. King speaks to a crowd of 15,000 in Washington, D.C. In 1958, The U.S. Congress is pressured by the people to passed the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. This is a huge success for King and his work as he is able to meet with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and talk about issues and problems affecting black Americans. It's clear King's methods have worked and he hold some degree of power. In the three years time, he was been able to change and influence laws and supreme court rulings. On a speaking tour in Harlem, King was nearly killed when stabbed by an assailant. Yet, this does not stop King from continuing his passion. He decides to take a trip to India to study Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence. When he returns to Atlanta, her conducts these new demonstrations of 'love' and non-violent sit-in/ protests. MLK also resigns as pastor from the Dexter Avenue Baptist …show more content…
King was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, by James Earl Ray. James Earl Ray was arrested in London, England on June 8, 1968, and extradited to Memphis, Tennessee to stand trial for the assassination of Dr. King. On March 9, 1969, before coming to trial, he entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to ninety-nine years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. Dr. King had been in Memphis to help lead sanitation workers in a protest against low wages and intolerable conditions. His funeral services were held April 9, 1968, in Atlanta at Ebenezer Church and on the campus of Morehouse College, with the President of the United States proclaiming a day of mourning and flags being flown at half-staff. The area where Dr. King was entombed is located on Freedom Plaza and surrounded by the Freedom Hall Complex of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Site, a 23 acre area was listed as a National Historic Landmark on May 5, 1977, and was made a National Historic Site on October 10, 1980 by the U.S. Department of the Interior" -(LSU
Martin luther king Jr. was born January 15, 1929.(Bonnie Bader) Martin was born in Atlanta,Georgia they lived in south in the south black were not free but in the north blacks were free.(Bonnie Bader) Martin had a sister named Willie Christie and a brother named Alfred daniels.(Bonnie Bader) Martins brother and sister grown up in Atlanta,Georgia through their child
Montgomery’s group of civil rights advocates decided to dispute racial segregation on city buses after the arrest of Rosa Parks whom refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. The advocated created the Montgomery Improvement Association in order to boycott the transit system and King was chose as their leader. During his first speech king stated: “We have no alternative but to protest. For many years, we have shown an amazing patience. We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we liked the way we were being treated. But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.” On December 21st of 1956, the United States Supreme Court declared segregation on buses as unconstitutional and which allowed African Americans the same equality of Caucasians as they rode the bus. During this time, King’s was arrested, his home was dynamited and family was threatened but he still persevered and never gave in to using violence to demand what was right.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and inspirational speeches he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. He was assassinated in April 1968, and continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and inspirational African-American leaders in history.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He was born to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King Jr. had an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. A very intelligent student, he skipped both the 9th and the 12th grade and entered Morehouse College at fifteen without graduating from high school. In 1948, he
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among many efforts, King headed the SCLC. Through his activism, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and other areas of the nation, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. King was assassinated in April 1968, and continues to be remembered as one of the most lauded African-American leaders in
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15 , 1929 and died on April 4, 1968. He was born Michael Luther King Jr. but decided to change his name to Martin. Both Martin Luther’s grandfather and father were pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Martin Luther carried on the tradition and served as pastor from 1960-1968 (Nobel Prize, 1). He was a big part of the civil rights movement for his race. In fact he was the most important voice in this movement. Dr. King is know for his nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice. Throughout his life he tried his hardest to make people understand that “all men are created equal”(American
To many million of American americans , Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the prophet of their crusade for racial equality. He was their voice of anguish,their battle cry for human dignity. He forged for them the weapons of nonviolence that withstood and blunted the ferocity of segregation.And to many millions of American whites, he was one of a group of african americans who preserved the bridge of communication between races when racial warfare threatened the United States in the nineteen-sixties.In his dedication to non-violence, Dr. King was caught between white and african american extremists as racial tensions engulfed into arson, gunfire and looting in many of the cities during the summer of 1967.Militant african americans argued that only by violence and segregation could the group attain self-respect, dignity and real equality in the United States. when he led a protest march through downtown Memphis, Tennesse. a group of african american youths suddenly began breaking store windows and looting, and one african american was shot to death.Two days later, however, Dr. King said he would stage another demonstration that attributed the violence to his own "miscalculation.”At the time he was assassinated in Memphis, Dr. King was involved in one of his greatest plans to dramatize the plight of the poor and stir Congress to help african americans. Other times mlk was
Martin Luther King a man who was a civil rights activist that was tired of America’s antics during the Vietnam War, so he decided to speak against their involvement. The U.S’s involvement to ending communism has led to negative impacts on the lives of the Vietnamese people. Martin Luther King Jr. has many reasons to why he wants the United States to resolve its problem with Vietnam through peaceful acts such as ending all bombing and removing all troops from Vietnam.
King, Jr. was a strong believer in the fact that every race should be treated equally to one another. As Edward Berry stated in his own Rhetorical Analysis, “Doing Time: King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail””, King dreamed of a time where whites and blacks could be equal (111). Some of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s largest achievements through this movement where the March on Washington, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and obviously the Birmingham Campaign. He gave his all into this movement and on April 4, 1969, at the young age of 39, was assassinated because of his belief in racial equality and gave his life for the Civil Rights Campaign. Like Martin Luther King said in his piece, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, “I am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom far beyond my own hometown (1). And that he did. Which is one of the biggest reasons that he is so widely remembered in the United States of America and
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929; He died on April 4, 1968. His original name was Michael Luther King Jr. he changed his name to Martin Luther King. His grandfather started the family long tradition of pastoring of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; His father had served as pastor from 1916 until death. Martin Luther King was co pastoring under his father, he attended segregated public school in Georgia. Graduating high school at the age of 15; He received the B.A. degree in 1940 from More House college, a distinguished negro institution of Atlanta, from which his father and grandfather graduated from. After 3 years of Theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class. He was awarded B.D. in 195, with a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled graduate studies at Boston University. He met his wife Coretta Scott while in Boston, Martin has 2 daughters and 2 Sons. He awarded leadership of the first negro in 1955. His bus boycott lasted for 382 days. On December 1956, After the Supreme Court of the United States declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, and now the road the bus at equals. During these days king was arrested multiple time for the bombing of his house, which also subjected to personal abuse. He engaged as a negro leader, at age 35 he was the youngest man to receive the “Nobel” prize, and on April 14, 1968, while standing on his balcony in Tennessee he was assassinated.
On the day of August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the world’s most famous speech on the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The speech was lively announced on a bright sunny day in front of a heavy crowd, which is said to of had 250,000 mixed racial people standing before the podium. The crowd went wild while he spoke about his future motives to change the way America treats African Americans. The speech was given to persuade a change in America, by ending segregation and giving equal rights to the African American race. Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister, and a social activist. He led the civil rights movement from the mid-1950’s to his heavy-hearted death, when he was assassinated on April 4th, 1968. Although he was never around to see the beautiful work he had accomplished, his speech and motive helped in creating the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dr. King performed a motivational speech by using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, which influenced Americans to believe the idea that all men were created equal.
It is important to fight for your freedom and rights in a nonviolent way. People will stand by your side to fight for their freedom as well like you.On October 14,1964 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. Luther was the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. King expanded his focus to include poverty and speak against the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled Beyond Vietnam. In 1968, he was planning a national occupation of Washington,D.C., to be called the Poor People’s Campaign,when he was assassinated on April 4,1968 in Memphis,Tennessee.His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971.At the White House Rose Garden on November 2,1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a U.S. federal holiday in 1968. George H.W. Bush’s 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of January each year near the time King’s birthday. On January 17,2000, for the first
Doctor Martin Luther King was civil right activities who was brutally assassinated on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee. The author National Achieves (2016) promulgates some key points identified in the Martin Luther Assignation. On April 06, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther Kings exited his hotel room and stepped out on the second-floor balcony. Dr. King was struck by a high caliber rifle in the cheek. “Dr. King was wounded and at 7:05 pm he was transported to the St. Joseph hospital in Memphis TN where he was later pronounced dead. The assailant James Earl Ray was perused, captured and plead guilty to the Murder of Dr. King. Although James Earl Ray admitted that he committed the crime of murder in cold blood, some critics believe that he did not act alone while some believe he did
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Civil Rights Activist Minister for the African American. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 along with different awards. Martin was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and entered a public school at the age of 5. In May 1936 he was baptized, but at the time he didn’t really believe in that religious stuff. 1941 in the month of May Martin’s grandmother Jennie had died while watching a parade against his parents’ wishes when she had the heart attack. Once Martin had gotten the news, when he got home he attempted suicide by jumping out of their two story family house. He attended Booker T. Washington High school, which he skipped both the 9th and 11th grade due to being so ahead in learning. At
Dr. King was born to reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Daniel William King on January 15, 1929. Martin Luther King Sr. was an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in American Civil Rights Movement, while Alberta Christine Williams King played a significant a role in affairs of the Ebenezer