Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr was the man to lead the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid 1950’s to 1968 when he was assassinated. “His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States”.
Martin Luther King Jr was apart of a very religious family. His grandfather was a rural minister for years which formed Martin into the religious man that he was. As a child he was much smarter than the other kids but he was not able to start school until he was 6 years old. He was so far ahead of all the other students he was able to skip two grades which were ninth and twelfth grade. In 1944 at age 15 Martin attended Morehouse College in Atlanta. His first 3 years of college he spent majoring in law and medicine but his senior year studied to be a minister just like his father. In December of 1955 Martin Luther King Jr. had done a boycott to not ride buses in Montgomery Alabama. Due to Rosa Parks not wanting to give up her spot on the bus for a white person. Rosa was later arrested and fined a fee of ten dollars. Her stand against white people sent out a word of belief to people all around the U.S. Making others wonder why blacks and whites
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put together a group of African American families as a demonstration group in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. This group planned on making their demonstration at the nation’s capital. Multiple groups of people joined together to say that they wanted peaceful change in their country. August 28, 1963 the march on Washington took place. It had brought more than 200,000 people to the capital. King made his famous “ I Have A Dream” speech in the shadow of the Lincoln memorial. The purpose of his speech was to prove to the people that “ All men could be brother”. All should be created equal for man was created in the eyes of god to be together not to be broken