Martin Luther King Jr.
(January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968)
(January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968)
This blog is to inform you everything crucial that Martin Luther King Jr. did during his lifetime and how his acts changed the way we live today.
He attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen. He received a B. A Degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a Negro institution of Atlanta from which his father and grandfather both graduated from. He met and married his wife, Coretta Scott. They had two sons and two daughters together.
In 1955, he accepted the role as leader of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration which started the bus boycott. The boycott lasted 382 days, on Decemeber 21st 1956 in front of the supreme court, blacks and whites rode the buses as equals. During the time of the boycott, Martin Luther King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was harrassed and still he became a Negro leader of the first rank.
From 1957 to 1968, King travelled all over the world and spole over twenty five hundred times, whenever there was injustive, protest and action, and meanwhile he wrote five books as well a many articles. During this time he also lead a huge protest in Birmingham, Alabama, which caught the attention of the whole world. He was in charge of the marth on Washington DC, where there was 250 000 people to whom he addressed the famous speech “ I Have a Dream”.
Martin Luther King was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963, he became a world figure and a symbolice leader of blacks. At the age of thirty five he was the youngest man to have received a Nobel Peace Prize, he turned over the money, $54 123 to the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. That was one of the most horrific days in history, the public did not take that action to kindly. Martin Luther King Jr. was a monument for the black community, he will never be forgotten, he contributed to so much of this world today.
"I HAVE A DREAM" speech
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
