Martin Luther King Jr :: Racism Blacks America

Martin Luther King JrNearly three centuries ago, African slaves were brought to the New demesne and putinto slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the United States than in anyother country that had ever practiced slavery, and ever since its suppression African-Americans have fought oppression. Martin Luther King Jr., would aidimmensely in this fight. He was born(p) in Atlanta Georgia in 1929. His father,Martin Luther King Sr. Was a Baptist minister and also preached for civil rights.By the time he was 17 he had decided to follow his fathers footsteps, so hehimself was ordained as a minister. After his graduation from the CrozerTheological Seminary, when he began postgraduate perish at Boston University, hestudied the works of Indian national Mohandas Gandhi, from whom he derivedhis own philosophy of nonviolent protest. He motiond to aluminum to become pastorfor a Baptist church. Just after he veritable his Ph.D. in 1955, King was askedto lead a bus boycott in Montgomery. I t had been formed after Rosa Parks wasarrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger. Throughout the 381 daylights which the boycott lasted, he was arrested and jailed, repeatedly threatened,and his family line was bombed. The boycott ended later that division when the SupremeCourt outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victoryand alone make Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959,he studied Gandhis principle of Satyagraha or nonviolent persuasion, which heplanned to delectation for his social protests. In the following year he decided to moveback 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 black elector registration, desegregation, and better educationthroughout the South. During that time he led the red-letter March onWashington where he delivered his famous I eat up a Dream speech to millions ofvi ewers across the nation. The next year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.He went on to launching his first major(ip) northern campaign in Chicago. BlackBaptists were there opposing 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 promiseland. This was the day prior to his demise. Sadly, the following day he wasshot to death in Memphis Tennessee. Nearly 500,000 of his loyal admirersattended his funeral.