Martin Luther King Jr Research Paper

Introduction
Racism is happening all around the world and it shouldn’t be happening. Racism is when people separate people because the others are different from them. I wonder why this is happening when UDHR article one clearly states: All humans are born free and equal. The UDHR articles were created on December 10, 1948 and that means it was created about 70 years ago and still there is racism happening around the world. One of the brave activists who fought against racism was Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Martin was a human rights activist who fought against racism, war and poverty but mostly racism. He was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent life when he visited India in 1959. Martin also organized a boycott with Jo Ann Robinson to not

was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. His father was a Baptist minister and his mother was a teacher. He had one brother named A.D and a sister named Christine. Martin’s real name was actually Michael but his father changed it to Martin after a family trip to Europe when Martin was 5. At first Martin wanted to be a firefighter but when Martin was 19 he decided to be a minister to follow his dad and his grandfather. That’s why Martin studied for 3 years at a seminary, which is a school for ministers. He played sports and took music lessons when he was young. Martin was so smart that he skipped 9th grade and 12th grade. Martin finished high school when he was 15 and entered college in the same year. Martin Luther King Jr. became Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955 because he received the title of doctor from Boston

Martin and many other civil rights leaders brought about 250,000 people for a march on Washington DC and there Martin did his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in August 28, 1963. The most famous paragraph of Martin’s speech was, “I have a dream that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin’s full speech was 7 paragraphs long! After the speech, Martin started to march and during the march he was arrested many times. In 1964, one year after the march and Martin’s speech, the government changed the law saying all segregation on religion and skin color could would no longer be legal. Because of Martin’s efforts to change the law in 1964, the same year when the law changed, Martin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest winner ever.

Death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin could have made more changes in the community but unfortunately in 1968 on April 4, 4 years after the law changed, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine Hotel by James Earl Ray. James was a white man who did NOT agree with Martin’s speech. The sad thing here is that Martin was only 39 when he was assassinated. James was captured a month later and he was sent to jail for 99 years.