Having Faith like Dr. King
By: Deandra Washington
Bravery, confidence, encouraging, and powerful are all traits of the great Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had these qualities and was a great public figure in the movement towards freedom Americans. He became a Morehouse College student at 15 years old, he was ordained as a minister at eighteen and at twenty-six he received his Ph.D. from Boston University. He grew up in a time in which African Americans were segregated from whites. He saw the injustice in this because America is a place where he thought that all men were free. Sadly, this was not the case. He decided to stand up against the injustice and fight for rights for all Americans.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,
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This speech was given in front of thousands and thousands of people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. People listened as they stood outside at the march and they listened at home on the radio or on television, as he let the world know how he felt about the injustices going on at this time. He made all of his listener feel that he understood and experienced those injustices. He says his hope for the future, that one-day things will be different and equal for all.
On April 3, 1968, King delivered his last speech, known as the “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” This speech was very passionate and he connected with his followers once again in a different way. He told them that they had to continue to fight and make others know that that fight wouldn’t stop.
Dr. King was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, in Room 306. On April 4, at about 6 p.m. he had a meeting. He stepped out onto the second floor balcony and was shot by a sniper. The single bullet shattered his jaw, broke his neck and severed his jugular vein. He was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead soon after 7 p.m. He was only 39 years