Martin Luther King Jr :: Racism Blacks America

Martin Luther King JrNearly three centuries ago, African slaves were brought to the untried World and putinto slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the unite States than in anyother country that had eer practiced slavery, and ever since its prohibition African-Americans have fought oppression. Martin Luther King Jr., would aidimmensely in this fight. He was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929. His father,Martin Luther King senior Was a Baptist minister and also preached for civil rights.By the time he was 17 he had dogged to follow his fathers footsteps, so hehimself was official as a minister. After his graduation from the CrozerTheological Seminary, when he began grad student work at Boston University, hestudied the works of Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi, from whom he derivedhis own philosophy of nonviolent protest. He travel to Alabama to become pastorfor a Baptist church. Just after he received his Ph.D. in 1955, King was askedto lead a bus ostracise in Montgomery. I t had been formed after Rosa Parks wasarrested for refusing to give her throne to a white passenger. Throughout the 381days which the boycott lasted, he was arrested and jai take, repeatedly threatened,and his home was bombed. The boycott ended later that year when the Supreme salute outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his head start victoryand just made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959,he studied Gandhis principle of Satyagraha or nonviolent persuasion, which heplotted to use for his social protests. In the following year he decided to move prat to Atlanta to become copastor with his father. In 1963 he was back inBirmingham, Alabama, where he led a massive civil rights campaign, organizingdrives for dingy voter registration, desegregation, and better educationthroughout the South. During that time he led the unforgettable March onWashington where he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech to millions ofviewers across the n ation. The beside year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.He went on to launching his first major northern campaign in Chicago. BlackBaptists were there argue him, and a mob of club carrying Ku Klux Klanmembers and Neo-Nazis met his marchers. With all that he had said and done, onApril 3, 1983 he said I have been to the mountain top and seen the prognosticateland. This was the day prior to his demise. Sadly, the following day he wasshot to finis in Memphis Tennessee. Nearly 500,000 of his loyal admirersattended his funeral.