Mlk Accomplishments

The 1960 were filled with influential people. People like Paul McCartney, John F. Kennedy and Bob Dylan. However, there is one man who sticks out above the rest. That man is Martin Luther King Jr. Being one of the single most prominent civil rights activists, his achievements in his only 39 short years were nothing short of extraordinary. Mlk was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia by the name Michael King Jr. Both Mlk and his father Michael King Sr. would adopt the name “Martin Luther” to honor a German religious leader named Martin Luther. Growing up, Martin Luther King Jr.’s parents, Michael and Alberta King, did their best to shelter their children from racism. Martin Luther King Jr.’s father fought against racial prejudice, not only for the fact that his people were being suppressed and segregated, but also for the fact that he considered it to be against Gods will. Little did he know that this would leave a

So much so that people who public displays of religion would make him uncomfortable. This temporarily influenced his decision to not follow in his father’s footsteps and enter the ministry. It wasn’t until his junior year at college that he took a bible class, which renewed his faith and, to his fathers delight, finally saw a career in ministry. After graduating from Moorhouse College in 1948, Mlk went on to attend the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary. While there he excelled academically and became valedictorian of his class. During his senior year at Crozer, Mlk was taken under the wing of a theologian named Reinhold Niebbuhr. Niebbuhr is noted as being one of the single most influential people in Martin Luther King Jr.’s development, both intellectual and spiritual. He was able to challenge Martin Luther King Jr.’s liberal views of theology, which in turn was a major influence on the way he