ipl-logo

Martin Luther King Research Paper Outline

627 Words3 Pages

Biographical Information: Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King's parents were both African-American, and he also had Irish ancestry through his paternal great-grandfather. He was brought up in a Baptist household and his father was a Reverend that sadly beat him until he was fifteen years old. Even though their relationship was estranged, King was still deeply interested in his father’s protests against segregation. King ended up falling for the daughter of a white woman who worked at his College. He wanted deeply to marry her but never went through with it because he was informed it would ruin his opportunity of being a Pastor in the South and would cause issues publicly. During this time era, it was not acceptable for White’s and African-American’s to date. He ended up marrying a woman named Coretta Scott. Scott was an African-American woman, together they had four children. “On June 5, 1955, Martin Luther …show more content…

King used pathos to describe how Lincoln was a “great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.” He then went on to describe how even after 100 years since the Emancipation proclamation that there were still issues that need fixing. King felt like “The life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” He used Logos here where he stated that “This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” He was stating that there was in fact, a law that we as a nation needed to recognize. That all men should have “Unalienable rights.” King used many metaphors through his speech to explain more in-depth how he felt such as “We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt” and much

Open Document