Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in a time where legal segregation of African Americans was actively happening across America, especially in the South. Born in Atlanta, Georgia into a middle class, loving, and supportive family where he received a good education did not prevent him from being treated any differently than any other African American in the south. Before Martin Luther King Jr. went to college, he went north to Connecticut where he saw no segregation, having him not understand the South’s ways even more. Mr. King’s mentor in college was Benjamin Mays. Mr. Mays believes that inspired Martin Luther King Jr. to become a pastor. Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Park decided she was not going to give up her …show more content…
He started the up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He held speeches across the nation. Martin Luther King Jr. believed in the Transcendentalist. He believed in equality for all people and believed that it could be done without violence. Mr. King saw civil disobedience as not completely destabilizing the system of law but a way to show there was injustice within the system of law. Mr. King’s first arrest triggered him being put in prison for violating his probation, but that didn’t spot him. I think he was put in prison because white Americans feared the influence he had on people with his protests and speeches. Mr. King made the news. He was able to use television to get his voice all over the world. I can only imagine the impact that he would have had if he had all the social media platforms we have today. Mr. King would have been an unstoppable force on social media platforms. The last line in his letter from the Birmingham jail says it all, “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such crisis and foster such tension that a community is forced to confront the issue”