Dante Figueroa Mrs.Binion La11, Period 1 October 2, 2017 Martin Luther King Jr dedicated his life fighting to end discrimination against African-American men, women, and children. Martin did not believe in violence at all and would use kindness and love as opposed to violence and hate, this would help set the tone of his iconic movement to end racism. Martin was able to prove that a world without violence can be successful. He would be able to establish equal voting rights between the black and white people, and establish that all nations must treat all people equal no matter their skin color. While Martin was growing up, there were a lot of problems with racism and people of color were not able to acquire as good of an education as white people. Despite these harsh conditions, Martin still had an excellent education growing up. “Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955” (Nobel Prize).
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
It is worth it to dream considering all the good things that happen as a result of it. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” Speech, the Revolutionary War, and Martin Luther’s “95 thesis” all changed the world. Martin Luther King’s dream was that everyone should be treated the same way and his dream happened. Another dream was from the colonies in America who wanted freedom. They had a war with British which was called The Revolutionary War. This dreamed changed the world too. Martin Luther’s “95 thesis” also changed the world. It changed people’s view on god and their church. People might say, “Those are just a few famous dreams that changed the world. There are many other dreams that didn’t change the world.” Many dreams change the world
Martin Luther King Jr. was a social justice leader, ambassador, and an icon to the African American communities in the United States during the !950’s and 1960’s. He was an icon for what he did in his lifetime that made him so well known. He all around helped the community and gave awareness to what he was trying to say. He wanted peace, freedom, and equality no matter what religion and race you were. He tried to express this to many people. Results of this ended with him going to jail for protesting on what he believed in. He had a major impact on influencing others on the awareness on race relations in the United States. His marches, speeches, and leadership started in the mid 1950’s to ban segregation the United States. This was the era of segregation and discrimination against other men, woman, boys, and girls. The era of what race you were and what you believed in.
Like Gandhi once wrote "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the brave men to do something about segregation, and getting civil rights. Along with Dr. King was the other blacks that helped and marched with him in a non violent manner. Dr.King never wanted to hurt anyone through violence. All he wanted was to get his point out across the world, and allow all blacks to finally have freedom and rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. knew something that many people had forgotten which that love was more important than hate. I loved this statement that he made “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” King seen a lot of hateful things in his life, he decided to respond with love and peace though. Through the leadership he ran he made big changes for the people of color in America. King was regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence and the greatest nonviolent leader in world
Martin Luther King Jr was the most important leader of the American Civil Rights movement because he knew how to go out and use his words instead of violence when protesting. He used nonviolent tactics for overcoming injustice such as segregation that didn't allow blacks to go to certain places or do certain stuff. King Jr never gave up on trying to convince people that “All Men Are Created Equal” no matter their race. King Jr led very popular marches such as the Albany movement, Birmingham Campaign, there's many more without using violence. The thing that made Martin unique is that he never gave up on trying to end segregation laws.
King Jr. was affected by his family, his college president, the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, and by the current state of segregation of his hometown. These contexts influenced Martin Luther King Jr. by shaping what his goals, actions, contributions were as well as influencing who he was as a catalyst for change.(“Martin Luther King Jr.” Biography, ) King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. Here he was born into a financially stable middle-class family, and was able to receive a better education than the average child of his race(SparkNotes: Martin Luther King, Jr.: Childhood and Family Background. ). Since he was fortunate
Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister and a social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement of the mid-1950’s. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15,1929(bio.com). King was the middle child of his family.. His family came from a strong Baptist faith, that he continued on. Growing up, he was loved and shielded against racism. At age 12 his grandmother died and caused him to attempt suicide. During his school days he skipped ninth and eleventh grades and went to Morehouse College at the age of fifteen (bio.com). King Jr was a popular student and at the time he was an unmotivated student. Martin went thru struggles about his faith and religion. Taking a Bible class
He showed people how to stay peaceful in the toughest of times by telling them that their opponent will eventually give up and realize that they were actual human beings. He showed people that fighting only creates conflict. He taught people to never give up and to keep fighting for what is right and even if it seems like you can’t you have to believe more than ever that you can because their will be a breakthrough and it will give you a path to victory. Martin saw a better tomorrow and chose to fight for it in his own way of peace and belief that the better tomorrow is getting closer each day(The life and legacy of Martin Luther King
Nearly three centuries ago, black men and women from Africa were brought to America and put into slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the United States than in any other country that had practiced slavery. African Americans didn’t gain their freedom until after the Civil War, nearly one-hundred years later. Even though African Americans were freed and the constitution was amended to guarantee racial equality, they were still not treated the same as whites and were thought of as second class citizens. One man had the right idea on how to change America, Martin Luther King Jr. had the best philosophy for advancing civil rights, he preached nonviolence to express the need for change in America and he united both African Americans
Martin Luther king Jr was that someone who made things right he started with a walk just a walk while they were being stopped by police, water hoses, and dogs. With the camera recording, they were seen on television thus exposing the violence of the feud. He was able to give equality to the African Americans sad that he was assassinated then again there are those who will die for what he or she believes in. what he did is really great for all of us abolishing and putting away the harsh history, however, there still is the troubles between the Americans the African
Martin Luther was a very important theologian. Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany. Martin died on February 18, 1546 in his birthplace of Eisleben, Germany. Martin Luther began the protestant reformation in the 16th century. Martin’s parents were from the pheasant lineage. His father had some success being a miner and ore smelter. In 1484 they moved to Mansfeld where Martin’s father held some ore deposits. At age 7 Martin started school in Mansfeld.
Martin Luther King Jr is involved in the civil rights movement.Not only was he the leader of the movement but also encouraged the importance of not using violence no matter the cause, and made sure that every race not just African Americanafrican americans were treated equally. Because of what he did, it changed the way we are today.
Due to his huge contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. is important to the end of segregation in the United States. He used nonviolence as a way to fight for equality for African Americans. In a book he wrote called Strength to Love he said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Darkness lacks light and more darkness cannot make it less dark, so light is the only thing that can make it less dark. Hate will continue if we do not fight it and the best way to fight it, is with love. If you fight hate with hate things will not be a better place, the world will be filled with hatred and life will be miserable. Fighting with love brings peace. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was, in his profoundly respected August 1963 letter to a gathering of white ministry who addressed and condemned his exercises in Birmingham, Alabama, looking for, from the vantage purpose of his correctional facility cell, to both right the confusions held by those pastorate, and to legitimize the strategies of peaceful common rebellion to which he subscribed. Why was King in Birmingham in any case? As he states right off the bat in his paper, "I am in Birmingham since foul play is here." Racial bad form had emerged as this current nation's most convincing long haul social injury. One-hundred-years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation liberating the African slaves conveyed to North America in chains and treated like so-much human property, here was Reverend King sitting in a prison cell in the American South battling for the most straightforward of conditions: social and legitimate uniformity among blacks and whites.