He changed lives for people all across the world. Born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King had a very good childhood; comparatively speaking. His parents attempted to shield him and his siblings against racism. Their act definitely rubbed off on him for what he did in the future. Religion was a big part of his life as both his father and grandfather
Martin Luther King grew up in a segregated society where white people oppressed black people. His father was a minister taught them nothing about race superiority which led Dr. King a lasting impression of his father. Having to be race in a segregated society and the teaching of his father has led Martin Luther King to be a creative thinker. His father being a minister made him a peaceful person in his combat toward racism. If his father had not been a minister, Martin Luther King’s critical thinking process would have been different from the Dr. King that we know today.
His family really believed that a man needed a secure education to lean back on. So Martin Luther King Jr, attended a isolated school and was devoted to learning. He did really well and actually skipped the grades of both ninth and twelfth grade and later on he started college at Morehouse at the age of 15. He then graduated in 1948. Through all of his education he learned the significance of public speaking and reaching out to others.
Bimbi influences him the importance of learning, which motivates Malcolm to take a few extension courses while in jail. Various family members start converting to the Nation of Islam and mention to him that leader, Elijah Muhammad, who teaches that “the white man is a devil.” The converted Malcolm recognizing Allah's divine plan for his life. A genuine prayer: ‘‘All praise is due to Allah.’’ Well Malcolm states that if it hadn’t been for Allah, he believes that he would have become “a brainwashed Black Christian.’’ Malcolm is released from prison in the summer of 1952, and moves to Detroit to be near his family and their local Nation of Islam temple. For Malcolm the learning and self-discovery doesn’t stop once he converts to Islam and leaves
Dr. King and another protester were arrested, and Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed. The first group of approximately 500 Civil Rights advocates left Brown Chapel on March 7 and attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to march along US Rte. 80 to Montgomery, the State capital. Alabama State Police blocked the road and ordered the assembled marchers to disperse. When the marchers refused, the troopers attacked and beat them, and forced them back to Brown Chapel, this was called “Bloody Sunday.” A second march occurred on March 9, but only as far as the Pettis Bridge.
On December 1, 1955, she boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. During her ride, she was told to move out of her seat and to the "colored section" in the back. She refused and was arrested. Her arrest triggered a systematic response among the civil rights community in Montgomery --- a boycott of public transportation. Leading the boycott effort was a young Reverend Martin Luther King, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
He was so smart that he skipped two grades in high school and started his college education at Morehouse College at the young age of fifteen. After getting his degree in sociology from Morehouse, he got a divinity degree from Crozer Seminary and then got his doctor's degree in theology from Boston University. (MLK Bio) In his first major civil rights action, Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This started when Rosa Parks refused to move to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. As a result, Martin led a boycott of the public transportation system.
All of us must have heard about him at least once in our lifetime. Martin is known for several things, his position would be the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. If you look at his background, Martin Luther King Jr. was a kind man and was the son and grandson of a pastor, so it was not surprising that he became a pastor as well. Martin was also very intelligent. He was so smart that he skipped two grades, graduated at the age of fifteen, and went straight to college.
Middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, Martin L. King had an impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. As an activist, he played a pivotal role in ending segregation against African Americans in the South and other certain areas in the nation as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Martin Jr. saw his father fight against racism because King Sr believed racism was not only making his race suffer but it was an affront to God's will, he strongly discouraged any type of class superiority towards his children, which left a lasting impact on his son, Martin L. King Jr. He entered public school at age 5.
However, his mission was cut short by an assassin’s bullet in 1968. In the beginning of 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was attending the Poor People’s campaign in Washington D.C. before he went on to Memphis to support strikers there. On April 4th that day after King’s final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, King was shot in the throat by a sniper named James Earl Ray, a white man (“King, Martin Luther, Jr.”). After news of King’s death spread, riots in over sixty cities broke out. One of the gifts of King’s dream was that it did not die when he had died; it became the Nation’s dream to live out and succeed