Martin Luther king Jr. was a good man when the world noticed him. There were many experiences he had as a child that were key events in shaping his personality. In this essay I will tell you about those experiences and what they did to prepare him for his challenges and obsticals to come.
In the story Martin Luther king Jr. or M.L. goes to the north to work for a summer. He says that the white people there are "really nice." He was quite disappointed when he returned to the south where things are not so favorable.M.L. states that that transition from the north to the south gave him "an inescapeble urge to serve society." Because of that idea he obtained, later on he and his wife decided to move to the south where the could better …show more content…
He was six years old and was experiencing his first taste of discrimanation. As a result of this, he later joined a white seminary in order to prove to himself that he was as good as anyone,as his mother said.
M.L.'s dad provided a great example for him. In the story it says he "refused to be humiliated by discrimanation." When M.L. was in high school he won first place in a speech contest. He was chosen to represant his school in a speech contest disgussing the 13,14, and 15 amendments. Combining his experiences with example of his father and his ability to make speechs, he was more than ready to lead the protest against segregation.
On the way home from his trip to the compition that he went to,disgussing the amendments, he and his teacher were forced out of their seats for a 90-mile trip. This angered M.L. more than anything he ever had indured before. In the passage it states that M.L. read about "Walter Rouschenbusch's vision of social justice, Mohandas Gandi's philosophy on nonviolence, and Reinhold Niebuhr's argument that political power was needed to defeat social evil." All of these made him the "soft spoken" person he was, and a perfect leader for society's nonviolent protest against
In the story Martin Luther king Jr. or M.L. goes to the north to work for a summer. He says that the white people there are "really nice." He was quite disappointed when he returned to the south where things are not so favorable.M.L. states that that transition from the north to the south gave him "an inescapeble urge to serve society." Because of that idea he obtained, later on he and his wife decided to move to the south where the could better …show more content…
He was six years old and was experiencing his first taste of discrimanation. As a result of this, he later joined a white seminary in order to prove to himself that he was as good as anyone,as his mother said.
M.L.'s dad provided a great example for him. In the story it says he "refused to be humiliated by discrimanation." When M.L. was in high school he won first place in a speech contest. He was chosen to represant his school in a speech contest disgussing the 13,14, and 15 amendments. Combining his experiences with example of his father and his ability to make speechs, he was more than ready to lead the protest against segregation.
On the way home from his trip to the compition that he went to,disgussing the amendments, he and his teacher were forced out of their seats for a 90-mile trip. This angered M.L. more than anything he ever had indured before. In the passage it states that M.L. read about "Walter Rouschenbusch's vision of social justice, Mohandas Gandi's philosophy on nonviolence, and Reinhold Niebuhr's argument that political power was needed to defeat social evil." All of these made him the "soft spoken" person he was, and a perfect leader for society's nonviolent protest against