This is an analysis of Martin Luther King Jr’s speech famously known as “I have a dream”. It was given on August 28 1963, at the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Which was a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country (History). There was a time in our history when this was seen through a racial injustice that could be seen through the whole culture. In this culture lived a man you have most likely heard of as he has played a significant role in the fight for civil rights movement in the United States, his name is Martin
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He had an older sister named Willie Christine, and a younger brother, whose name was Alfred. Followed by His Parents tried to guard him from racism but due to the time in which they lived there was only so much they could do. Though he was raised in a Christian home his faith was not his own until his junior year of highschool when he took a bible course, renewed his faith and decided to work towards a career in ministry. In 1948, Martin Luther King Jr. earned a sociology degree from Morehouse College and attended the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a very smart student and attained the title of valedictorian of his class, as well as elected student body president. The president of Morehouse college whose name was Benjamin E. Mays was the one who encouraged Kings push for racial equality and social change He was accepted into several Ivy league schools for his doctorate and he chose to go to Boston University, where he met his wife Coretta Scott who was an aspiring singer and musician. They were married in June 1953 and had four children, Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott and Bernice. He then became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama. He completed his Ph.D. and was awarded his degree in 1955, when he was only 25 years old
He had an older sister named Willie Christine, and a younger brother, whose name was Alfred. Followed by His Parents tried to guard him from racism but due to the time in which they lived there was only so much they could do. Though he was raised in a Christian home his faith was not his own until his junior year of highschool when he took a bible course, renewed his faith and decided to work towards a career in ministry. In 1948, Martin Luther King Jr. earned a sociology degree from Morehouse College and attended the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a very smart student and attained the title of valedictorian of his class, as well as elected student body president. The president of Morehouse college whose name was Benjamin E. Mays was the one who encouraged Kings push for racial equality and social change He was accepted into several Ivy league schools for his doctorate and he chose to go to Boston University, where he met his wife Coretta Scott who was an aspiring singer and musician. They were married in June 1953 and had four children, Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott and Bernice. He then became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama. He completed his Ph.D. and was awarded his degree in 1955, when he was only 25 years old