As we all grew up learning Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential people in American history. He paved the way for not only African Americans but everyday people all over the US. Martin Luther King Jr. was just an everyday man who wanted everyone to be treated equal no matter their race, color, or beliefs. He thought that neither man nor woman should be judged by the color of their skin but the quality of their character and what they had to offer to society. If it wasn’t for MLK America honestly might not be the place that we know today, without him America could very well still be a segregated place with racism running ramped.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 to his mother Alberta King and his father …show more content…
With this organization came a great deal of hate from all over, Martin underwent so much abuse due to his decision to get involved with the civil rights movement, he was hated , beat up , and he was even stabbed by white people who were outraged just by the thought of him. During a Protest in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 Martin was arrested and jailed for violating a law that basically banned these types of protests in the city of Birmingham. As a result of being jailed Martin wrote a letter while he was in jail which is famously known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, the letter was mainly written to the government of Alabama as well as indirectly written to president at the time John F. Kennedy. Within the letter Martin voiced his outrage of the injustice of his imprisonment and the injustice in Birmingham, he voiced his moral opinions as well as others opinions on the injustice being delivered in not only Birmingham but America as a whole ( Westbrook Robert). Later on in August of 1963 Martin lead his famous march on Washington, which the place where he gave his even more famous I have dream speech. The march on Washington was one of Martin’s most influential marches, with this march he hope that essentially by walking in Kennedy’s back yard he hoped to push the issue of outlawing segregation and passing civil rights laws. This march proved to be successful because the march prompted a the Civil Rights Act to outlaw segregation( Ling Peter). As the years went on and blacks started gaining more rights Martin began to get so many death threats and feared that soon his life would be ended. Martin knew that he would be assassinated; it was something he even mentioned to his wife after Kennedy’s
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 to his mother Alberta King and his father …show more content…
With this organization came a great deal of hate from all over, Martin underwent so much abuse due to his decision to get involved with the civil rights movement, he was hated , beat up , and he was even stabbed by white people who were outraged just by the thought of him. During a Protest in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 Martin was arrested and jailed for violating a law that basically banned these types of protests in the city of Birmingham. As a result of being jailed Martin wrote a letter while he was in jail which is famously known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, the letter was mainly written to the government of Alabama as well as indirectly written to president at the time John F. Kennedy. Within the letter Martin voiced his outrage of the injustice of his imprisonment and the injustice in Birmingham, he voiced his moral opinions as well as others opinions on the injustice being delivered in not only Birmingham but America as a whole ( Westbrook Robert). Later on in August of 1963 Martin lead his famous march on Washington, which the place where he gave his even more famous I have dream speech. The march on Washington was one of Martin’s most influential marches, with this march he hope that essentially by walking in Kennedy’s back yard he hoped to push the issue of outlawing segregation and passing civil rights laws. This march proved to be successful because the march prompted a the Civil Rights Act to outlaw segregation( Ling Peter). As the years went on and blacks started gaining more rights Martin began to get so many death threats and feared that soon his life would be ended. Martin knew that he would be assassinated; it was something he even mentioned to his wife after Kennedy’s