Racial Discrimination In Martin Luther King's Education

First of all, throughout King’s education, he experienced racial discrimination. One example of this would be as "Martin Luther King Jr. Childhood & Family Background" states, “White playmates of his were to attend a different elementary school from his, and, once the year began, their parents no longer allowed King to come over and play. It was this instance of injustice that first led his mother to explain to him the history of slavery and segregation” (MLK Childhood and Family 6). Through the separation of Martin from his white playmate, he was subjected to dealing with being singled out because of the color of his skin. He was isolated from having friends of a different race, not because of his friend, but the friend’s parents. This would

It was the angriest I have ever been in my life” (King 10). To curse out a child and his teacher only because they weren’t moving out of the way at the desired speed is excruciatingly absurd. King and his teacher had obeyed the order for them to move out of their seats, which was already bad enough. This occurrence would push King to fight later on for racial equality because first of all, for a person to be forced out of their seat because of their color is one thing, but to also complain about the speed at which they were moving isn’t right at all. So, King would fight for the freedom to sit where anyone desires, despite race. Lastly, from "What Martin Luther King Jr. Was Like as a Child," it says, “From his earliest memory Martin King has had a strong aversion to violence in all its forms. The school bully walloped him; Martin did not fight back” (Rothman 4). King had experienced bullying in school at such an early age. He didn’t make a move, nor did he fight back. This surely isn’t the right reason for a child to be bullied for his or her color. It would push King to fight for racial equality because he believed no one should be bullied for their color. He believed that everyone should live