A Dream Still Remembered
Per the Howard Gottieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. On the 15 January 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta Georgia. He entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1948. In 1954 he accepted a job at the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama, during his sermons he would often encourage his congregation to get involved in community and social matters, speaking about the importance in voting. In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr returned to Atlanta Georgia taking his place at the pulpit preaching for the Ebenezer Baptist church and working on his Dissertation and earned his PhD. After the arrest of Rosa Parks on 01 December of 1955. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr would get involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott quickly becoming a leader in the movement. The movement would result in the U.S. Supreme court ruling that a segregated public transit systems were unconstitutional. Over the next year, using tactics of non-violent resistance, Dr. King would be instrumental in the organizing of sit ins at lunch counters and other various segregated venues. In an attempt by some appoints of the movement to dissuade his actions, Dr. King’s house was fire bombed twice, and in 1958 while promoting an autobiography on his account of the …show more content…
King would not be silenced by his arrest, in 28 August 1963 king would be a major part of the march on Washington, the march went from the Washington monument to the steps of the Lincoln memorial. The event drew a crowd of over 250,000 people making it the largest in American history. Several people spoke about civil rights and equality but none would be as as memorable or as effective as DR Martin Luther King Jr, here he would give his most memorable speech that would come to be known as the “I have a dream speech”. In 1964 DR King, would was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On 04 April 1968 DR Martin Luther King Jr was Assassinated buy a man named James Earl
Per the Howard Gottieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. On the 15 January 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta Georgia. He entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1948. In 1954 he accepted a job at the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery Alabama, during his sermons he would often encourage his congregation to get involved in community and social matters, speaking about the importance in voting. In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr returned to Atlanta Georgia taking his place at the pulpit preaching for the Ebenezer Baptist church and working on his Dissertation and earned his PhD. After the arrest of Rosa Parks on 01 December of 1955. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr would get involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott quickly becoming a leader in the movement. The movement would result in the U.S. Supreme court ruling that a segregated public transit systems were unconstitutional. Over the next year, using tactics of non-violent resistance, Dr. King would be instrumental in the organizing of sit ins at lunch counters and other various segregated venues. In an attempt by some appoints of the movement to dissuade his actions, Dr. King’s house was fire bombed twice, and in 1958 while promoting an autobiography on his account of the …show more content…
King would not be silenced by his arrest, in 28 August 1963 king would be a major part of the march on Washington, the march went from the Washington monument to the steps of the Lincoln memorial. The event drew a crowd of over 250,000 people making it the largest in American history. Several people spoke about civil rights and equality but none would be as as memorable or as effective as DR Martin Luther King Jr, here he would give his most memorable speech that would come to be known as the “I have a dream speech”. In 1964 DR King, would was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On 04 April 1968 DR Martin Luther King Jr was Assassinated buy a man named James Earl