There are many African American people that changed our society. Although one person that stands out the most is Martin Luther King Jr. He put a stop to discrimination and segregation by doing the March on Washington movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott and much more. On the other hand, his society was extremely different than today’s. Through 1890’s to 1954 segregation was a huge epidemic and was well know through all states in the U.S. The definition of segregation is “A setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group”. In his society that meant all the white men, women, and children get all the higher class and better things than all the black men, women, and children did. They also had people that
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He organized and did many events in effort to change the U.S., from announcing his famous I have a dream speech to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin did the bus boycott in 1956 for Rosa Parks. He did it because after a long hard day of working Rosa Parks sat down in a bus seat although after a while a white man wanted her sat but she refused to give it up. Rosa then later was sent to jail for violating the Jim Crow law but was released and Martin didn’t like one bit of it so he decided to organize a bus boycott. In the boycott Martin and other fellow African Americans sat where they wanted to sit on the bus and didn’t move for no white people. That wasn’t the only thig Martin put in place, he also delivered the famous “I Have A Dream Speech” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Over 250,000 civil right supporters were there that day to here that motivational speech. Martin believed in an equal country so much he died just to end discrimination and segregation. He died at 6:01 pm on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the second floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His killer was, James Earl Ray, an advocate of unequal rights and was captured two months later and was sentenced to 99 years in
He organized and did many events in effort to change the U.S., from announcing his famous I have a dream speech to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin did the bus boycott in 1956 for Rosa Parks. He did it because after a long hard day of working Rosa Parks sat down in a bus seat although after a while a white man wanted her sat but she refused to give it up. Rosa then later was sent to jail for violating the Jim Crow law but was released and Martin didn’t like one bit of it so he decided to organize a bus boycott. In the boycott Martin and other fellow African Americans sat where they wanted to sit on the bus and didn’t move for no white people. That wasn’t the only thig Martin put in place, he also delivered the famous “I Have A Dream Speech” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Over 250,000 civil right supporters were there that day to here that motivational speech. Martin believed in an equal country so much he died just to end discrimination and segregation. He died at 6:01 pm on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the second floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His killer was, James Earl Ray, an advocate of unequal rights and was captured two months later and was sentenced to 99 years in