Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King, Jr was born on January 25, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. “At church his father and grandfather were Baptist pastors and his mother was the choir director and organist of the church” (Compass Learning, 2008). Martin Luther King, Jr successful leadership in the civil rights movement can be attributed to his drive for education, personal experiences with injustice, and unwavering belief in nonviolent protest.

For his education Martin Luther King, Jr went to Morehouse College for college. Martin Luther King, Jr won a Pearl Plafkner Award for being an outstanding student and he received a fellowship award for doing graduate studying. He also did his studying at Boston University when he got Ph.D. in Philosophy from doing Systematic Theology. …show more content…
He won first prize in a speech contest by the Negro Elks Society when he was fourteen. In 1956 he got arrested when he was going thirty mph in a twenty-five mph zone when he was twenty-seven. For his nonviolent protest Martin Luther King, Jr was a pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. He was also named president called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Also Martin Luther King, Jr’s house was set on fire, torn apart by tear gas, beatings, and there were violent reactions when it got destroyed.

In concluding a lot of qualities made Martin Luther King, Jr a successful leader than he was before. His dream of equality did not at all with his death. All of his contributions and achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr made him like Martin Luther King, Jr Day of a national