A Dream that changed a Nation
Early scholar to civil rights movement activist Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader of the times, a men amongst men. However, a young boy went from being an early aged college student to social activist; from name changes, attending college, multiple arrest, public speaking, and assassination. He was monumental in the desegregation of the United States. And throughout his lifetime he was able to greatly impact our nation and the way we looked at diversity forever.
Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister and Civil Rights Movement activist, originally his name was Michael King Jr. His father changed both his own and his sons name to Martin; after being inspired by the German Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. He entered college at the young age of fifteen, enrolling in 1944 at Morehouse College and by the age of nineteen he achieved a bachelors in Sociology. And later achieved his PhD through Crozer …show more content…
Kennedy purposed a bill that would radically change the nation, eliminating segregation from public entities along with the discrimination within the workforce, with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech becoming a highlight as he pled to congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. It took Congress over a year to pass the bill into law, but Dr. King still
Early scholar to civil rights movement activist Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader of the times, a men amongst men. However, a young boy went from being an early aged college student to social activist; from name changes, attending college, multiple arrest, public speaking, and assassination. He was monumental in the desegregation of the United States. And throughout his lifetime he was able to greatly impact our nation and the way we looked at diversity forever.
Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister and Civil Rights Movement activist, originally his name was Michael King Jr. His father changed both his own and his sons name to Martin; after being inspired by the German Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. He entered college at the young age of fifteen, enrolling in 1944 at Morehouse College and by the age of nineteen he achieved a bachelors in Sociology. And later achieved his PhD through Crozer …show more content…
Kennedy purposed a bill that would radically change the nation, eliminating segregation from public entities along with the discrimination within the workforce, with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech becoming a highlight as he pled to congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. It took Congress over a year to pass the bill into law, but Dr. King still