Martin Luther King Jr Research Paper

Ever heard the saying” Back in my day…”? Well way back it wasn't the greatest place for a colored person to live in you'll learn about this later. The world was a very segregated place back in the in the 1896-1954s there was a lot of places that didn't allow types of colored people mostly consisting of African Americans. In 1896 and 1954 the Jim Crow Law was made which created racial segregation which meant not allowing other colors besides whites didn't have as much more right than people who were white. This didn't start on this date exactly because African Americans have always been judged as second-class citizens for decades, ever since the Europeans did the middle passage to transport slaves to the New World. That was until the 1950s came

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia located between Alabama and South Carolina. He was born with the name of Michael King Jr. not Martin King Jr. but later in his career he changed his name to the original name you know today. He was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. When Martin Luther King Jr. was born they tried to hide as much racism they could from him and when he was exposed, his father stood up for him, this had a huge impact on Martin. Eventually Martin Luther King Jr. entered his first public school at age 5 and then in May, 1936 Martin was baptized, but at the time this didn't matter much to him. A couple years have passed and Martin was 12 in May, 1941 when his grandmother, Jennie, died of a heart attack. This took a huge toll on him, especially because he was doing a parade against his parents' demands, after he heard the news he tried jumping a 2 story building apparently trying to commit

Then on December 1, 1955 that evening Rosa Parks entered the Cleveland Avenue bus to go home after she had a hard day at work. She was sitting in the middle of the bus and when more white men entered the bus the bus driver told Rosa parks 3 other black men to get in the back of the bus, the three men obeyed. Rosa didn't move an inch, when asked again she refused and she was arrested for violating Montgomery City Code. The rest is history but when this happened E.D. Nixon, head of the local NAACP met with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil right leaders to make a plan about boycotting all buses citywide. This worked out greatly and the law was lifted. Then passing a few years the incredible happened when Martin Luther King Jr, decided to do a March on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. where he did his famous speech shown in this video