Martin Luther King essay

Answer 1

This is a small essay about his life.

Biographical Details

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15 1929 and died on April 4, 1968. He had four children (the first of which is now dead) Yolanda Denise King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King and Bernice Albertine King. He grew up in a Christian community in Atlanta, Georgia. He married Coretta Scott and worked as a doctor of Philosophy.

American Civil Rights Movement

The American Civil Rights Movement was a campaign against violence, exploitation, and racial segregation against black people, or Negros. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and W.E.B Du Bois were the main people who started it. A form of protest for this was the Montgomery Bus Boycott as well as the march by the Lincoln memorial. An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 demonstrators gathered there, where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Influences

Growing up he was greatly influenced by people such as Rosa Parks, the person who was asked to get off the bus for a white man, and refused. He was also influenced by Gandhi and his ways of peaceful protests as well as Jesus and his teachings of treating every man equally.

Sacrifices

He made many sacrifices for his cause; he was stabbed by a mentally deranged woman from Adrian, Georgia while on a book tour in New York City, his house was bombed when the situation of the Bus Boycott became too tense, and in the end he sacrificed his life, when he was assassinated on his balcony taking a breath of fresh air after arriving late in Memphis after a bomb threat on his plane.

This is one of his quotes…

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."