Martin Luther King's Legacy

It’s 1963, and the March on Washington has begun to unravel. You push through the enormous crowd to get a closer look at the voice, the symphony, that is giving commands of justice to the audience. The crowd is like a swamp, you’re trudging to get through to see its face. At last, you have it in your vision. It’s a colored man, dressed formally for the city. His voice boomed for miles, his music reaching the ears of the masses. It would give them hope, their freedom. His speech touched the hearts of millions. You were proud to be there. In 1968, however, King was assassinated. He had so much potential, he had the ability to change the lives for the colored people who deserved him. Even though he died, many carried on his legacy and hope. Martin Luther King Jr. left the seeds that would become a colored man’s equality, the act of nonviolence, and other leaders who would take on his legacy. Martin Luther was known for many things, but his most well known tribute to society was his lust for equal rights. With the events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin felt that it was his duty to fight for the solution of this ongoing problem. Everyone remembers King’s “I Have a Dream” speech; “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We …show more content…
He had the help of Bayard Rustin and many others to fulfill this plan. Most people thought that he was following Gandhi and his methods, but in truth he knew little about the wise man. Carrying on, the idealism of nonviolence was a big step, let alone equality. King explained his understanding of nonviolence, which seeks to win an opponent to friendship, rather than to humiliate or defeat him. Making more friends than enemies is what the U.S. should lust for. Martin’s teaching of pacifism changed the outlook of America and how we operated. Without his death, that legacy wouldn’t have been fought for