He had been a civil rights activist for African Americans for many years. King was so involved, that he was a member of the executive committee of the NAACP. In December 1955, he became the leader of the first African American nonviolent demonstration in the United States. King became an icon for civil rights. He gave his "I have a dream" speech on at the Lincoln Memorial. In this speech, he talked about his dreams of an America without segregation, an America with equality, and most importantly, an America where people of all races and religions would live in harmony. This speech was the last speech Dr. King gave before his death. It was the night before he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of Memphis, Tennessee. On April 4, 1968, he was standing on the balcony of his motel room in the evening, and he was assassinated. Even after Dr. King's unfortunate death, the civil rights movement still lived on for years to come.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. When he grew up, he became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Growing up, he went to segregated public schools in Georgia. When he was fifteen, he graduated from high school. King went to college at Morehouse College, which was a fancy African American school in Atlanta, Georgia. After he graduated, he studied theology for three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Here, he was elected president of the senior class, which was mostly made up of white people.
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When we think of the Civil Rights movement, and the african-american's fight for their equality in society, the first name that comes to mind is Martin Luther King Jr. He is widely known for his non-violence approach that is mainly a big movement and the approach in the South. There are other civil rights actiists who have diffferent approaches to MLK. Wherever the battle is taking place, there will have to be different approaches.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to what you wrote about in your blog post, Martin Luther King Jr. also formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with the help of other ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957. The SCLC pledged to use nonviolent resistance to achieve its goals, meaning that in the face of violence, members would not respond with violence. Unlike many other black rights activists, King firmly believed in nonviolent resistance and stayed true to that belief his entire life.
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