Martin Luther King Jr Research Paper

Martin Luther king jnr( man of the year 1963) The famous land on the western hemisphere has always been a dream to many. At first, it all started in Europe during the era of agrarian revolution. The new land owning policies by different European governments proved to be unwelcomed by many citizens. Many fleets then set off to the new lands in America. Europeans came into America and colonized the native Indians. They brought with them the skills to till and produce from the fertile lands of America. When industrial age came in, more factories demanded more raw materials to sustain their production. The lands of America seemingly proved more fertile than initial expected. This is what therefore brought a “dark continent” into question. More workers were needed in the cotton plantations of the southern states to work on the farms. Africans were therefore captured as slaves and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to USA to work in the farmlands. The population of African Americans then started to pour into the USA. As the number of black Americans grew, the whites came up with various policies that would ensure their dominance over the blacks and other races they considered inferior. By 1950s, the African Americans were excluded from the …show more content…
His family had a deep root of Christianity something that would make him serve as co pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia and later received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College. After three years of theological study in Pennsylvania, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. Martin then started working as a co-pastor to their church and he gained experiences that late made him advocate to equal treatment of all human. He believed in a non violent approach towards fighting for equality. In 1955, he accepted the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent