Martin Luther King Jr Research Paper

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Martin Luther King Jr has sacrificed his life to create equal rights for persons of colors. In his early years, he had a friend named Alfred, one day King decided to go to his friend’s house. When he did, he was greeted by a white man who said they his son could not play with him because he was colored person. This is the first time King ever experienced segregation. Throughout his life, Martin Luther King had been subject to racism and segregation, he lived in an era where slavery was abolished, but not all thought white and persons of colors were the same. All throughout school, King was always gifted and advanced for his age, which helped him skip two grades and helped King graduated Booker T. Washington High School at the age of fifteen. This helped him get into the all-black college of Morehouse. He was initially interested in Civil Rights but as time went by, he decided he wanted to get into religion. After he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Morehouse he decided he wanted to school for religion, the Crozer Seminary. This is also around the time that King joined the NAACP. With prestigious fellowship from Crozer Seminary, he continued his education in theology in Boston University. He later …show more content…

With help from the NAACP and several other civil right activist, King had organized a boycott that lasted longer than a year, he was the spokesperson of the boycott. The civil right activist groups had taken the arrest to the Supreme Court, they ended the boycott after the court ruled the segregated seating on buses unconstitutional. Subsequently, King had been elected to be the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. After he was elected to be the president he visited many places and helped their leaders, one of the most noticeable was his India trip where he got to talk to followers of Gandhi, his

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