In 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta on January 15 (Biography). Martin entered Morehouse college at the age of 15 and was ordained a minister at the age of 18 while in Boston he met Coretta Scott. In 1953 Coretta Scott and Martin got married in 1954 Martin studied the work of Mahatma Gandhi and in 1955 the supreme declared bus segregation illegal. In 1960 JFK was up for election and segregation was officially ended in interstate trial and in 1964 Martin was the youngest person to receive a nobel peace prize.Martin Luther King Jr. is the reason that segregation stopped.
Martin Luther King Jr. was the reason that segregation stopped because he believed that peaceful protests would help get the people to listen to him not violence. …show more content…
America has changed a lot since then America is free and not segregated anymore. America is a little bit racist still but a lot of people aren’t racist and over time some people don’t realise that they’re lucky they didn’t have to grow up segregated. Now people almost all over the world get to go to school with anyone of any religion, color, race, etc. In the speech “I Have A Dream” by King it says “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition” (Martin Luther King). This means that for a long time people of different color have been enslaved and segregated and that they don’t want it to be like that anymore they want everyone to have the same …show more content…
was the one to stop segregation was because he was all about peaceful protests and not violence. MLK Jr. also wrote a speech and started a peaceful march to the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. (Google). In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have A Dream” it says “And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” (Martin Luther King Jr.). Readers can infer this means Martin wants every kid to be free and sing this song with meaning and feel lucky they don’t have to be segregated anymore and not just sing it because they have to. Martin stopped segregation with his peaceful protests and with all the people standing against
Martin Luther King Jr. was the reason that segregation stopped because he believed that peaceful protests would help get the people to listen to him not violence. …show more content…
America has changed a lot since then America is free and not segregated anymore. America is a little bit racist still but a lot of people aren’t racist and over time some people don’t realise that they’re lucky they didn’t have to grow up segregated. Now people almost all over the world get to go to school with anyone of any religion, color, race, etc. In the speech “I Have A Dream” by King it says “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition” (Martin Luther King). This means that for a long time people of different color have been enslaved and segregated and that they don’t want it to be like that anymore they want everyone to have the same …show more content…
was the one to stop segregation was because he was all about peaceful protests and not violence. MLK Jr. also wrote a speech and started a peaceful march to the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. (Google). In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have A Dream” it says “And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” (Martin Luther King Jr.). Readers can infer this means Martin wants every kid to be free and sing this song with meaning and feel lucky they don’t have to be segregated anymore and not just sing it because they have to. Martin stopped segregation with his peaceful protests and with all the people standing against