Martin Luther King Jr. being successful Everyone has a different option on what a hero is or can be. To better understand what a heroic quality is, it may be easier to describe what a hero is not. Nearly every day on T.V. people talk of athletes and celebrities as being heroes, but are they? To put it mildly, they are not heroes at all. They are role models, but for the most part, not in possession of heroic qualities. Policeman and fireman are at times classified as heroes. Until they prove themselves they are there just ordinary people. If a people are always worried about themselves then how are they supposed to influence others? A hero is someone you look up to and may could be someone you want to be like when you get older. For example, some people want to be like artist or a singer. My opinion is anyone can be a hero just if they only care for their self are they a hero? Being a hero takes a lot of time and enough. …show more content…
was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States. His legal name on his birth certificate was Michael King. and his father was also born Michael King, but the elder King changed his and his son 's names following a 1934 trip to Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance in Berlin . Martin Jr. was a middle child, between an older sister Willie Christine King and a younger brother Alfred Daniel Williams King. Martin Luther King parents is Reverend Martin Luther King and Alberta Williams King. His grandparents are Reverend Adam Daniel Williams and Jenny Parks Williams. He married Coretta Scott King. She was an American author, activist, and Civil Rights lead leader. They got married on June 18,