Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. King enrolled in Morehouse College in 1944 and built a lifelong friendship with his teacher, Benjamin Mays. His father and his teacher’s influence led King to the Church and becoming religious.
It was in Boston where he met his wife Coretta Scott, who he later went on and married her in 1953. In 1954, he became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where Rosa Parks was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
National awareness
After Parks' arrest, King came to national importance in the United States. He was the leading figure in the organisation of the boycott by African Americans of buses in Montgomery. In 1955 to 1956 he came to power though he didn't seek out leadership. They needed a leader so Martin Luther King was a neutral choice. They nominated Kung because; he was young and new to town and thought that he wasn't a threat."
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention. Led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others, the campaign of nonaggressive direct actions ended in widely public confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities, and eventually led the government to change the city's discrimination laws.
In the early 1960s, Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States, both as enforced by law and culturally. Black citizens faced legal and economic disparities and violent retribution when they attempted to draw attention to their problems.
Protests in Birmingham began with a boycott that was designed to pressure business leaders to open employment to people of all races and end segregation in public facilities, restaurants and stores. When business leaders resisted the boycott, SCLC organizer Wyatt Tee Walker and Birmingham native Fred Shuttlesworth began a project called, Project C; a series of marches intended to provoke mass arrests.
The Birmingham campaign was a model of a direct action protest, as it effectively shut down the city and, through the media, drew the world's attention to racial segregation in the South. Most importantly, the campaign paved a way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in hiring practices and public services in the United States.
'I have a dream'
Success in the Birmingham campaign provided further motivation to the movement. This concluded in a massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963. More than 200,000 people attended at the Lincoln Memorial where King delivered his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech, promising a day where global freedom and equality would become a reality in America.
Unfortunately, less than a month after Martin Luther King delivered his speech a blast killed four young girls in a Birmingham church. King later realised to achieve his dream many hours of hard effort would need to be contributed. In 1964, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize also in that same year; a significant step forward was made with the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act followed in 1965, removing the barriers which prevented African Americans from voting, in some states.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Death
On 3 April 1968, he arrived in Memphis, Tennessee to prepare for a march in support of striking sanitation workers. The following day, he was assassinated on his hotel balcony. The President, Lyndon B. Johnson, called for a national day of mourning.
Personal thoughts
The movements that Martin Luther King led were successful on a scale that they raised heaps of awareness throughout the country and even the world. The statement that ‘There is no need for further civil rights action in USA,’ is a false statement because as you can see in less than a month after King delivered his speech a blast killed four young girls in a Birmingham church. Future actions need to take place to prevent these major and minor disasters form happening. The Civil Rights impacted the world largely because if not for the rights being implemented black slavery would still be a common thing for the world. If my cultural group was being treated the same way as the blacks for King’s time I would speak up for our rights because no human should be treated like how they were treated. History should not repeat itself.
Martin Luther King was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. King enrolled in Morehouse College in 1944 and built a lifelong friendship with his teacher, Benjamin Mays. His father and his teacher’s influence led King to the Church and becoming religious.
It was in Boston where he met his wife Coretta Scott, who he later went on and married her in 1953. In 1954, he became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where Rosa Parks was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
National awareness
After Parks' arrest, King came to national importance in the United States. He was the leading figure in the organisation of the boycott by African Americans of buses in Montgomery. In 1955 to 1956 he came to power though he didn't seek out leadership. They needed a leader so Martin Luther King was a neutral choice. They nominated Kung because; he was young and new to town and thought that he wasn't a threat."
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention. Led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others, the campaign of nonaggressive direct actions ended in widely public confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities, and eventually led the government to change the city's discrimination laws.
In the early 1960s, Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States, both as enforced by law and culturally. Black citizens faced legal and economic disparities and violent retribution when they attempted to draw attention to their problems.
Protests in Birmingham began with a boycott that was designed to pressure business leaders to open employment to people of all races and end segregation in public facilities, restaurants and stores. When business leaders resisted the boycott, SCLC organizer Wyatt Tee Walker and Birmingham native Fred Shuttlesworth began a project called, Project C; a series of marches intended to provoke mass arrests.
The Birmingham campaign was a model of a direct action protest, as it effectively shut down the city and, through the media, drew the world's attention to racial segregation in the South. Most importantly, the campaign paved a way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in hiring practices and public services in the United States.
'I have a dream'
Success in the Birmingham campaign provided further motivation to the movement. This concluded in a massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963. More than 200,000 people attended at the Lincoln Memorial where King delivered his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech, promising a day where global freedom and equality would become a reality in America.
Unfortunately, less than a month after Martin Luther King delivered his speech a blast killed four young girls in a Birmingham church. King later realised to achieve his dream many hours of hard effort would need to be contributed. In 1964, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize also in that same year; a significant step forward was made with the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act followed in 1965, removing the barriers which prevented African Americans from voting, in some states.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Death
On 3 April 1968, he arrived in Memphis, Tennessee to prepare for a march in support of striking sanitation workers. The following day, he was assassinated on his hotel balcony. The President, Lyndon B. Johnson, called for a national day of mourning.
Personal thoughts
The movements that Martin Luther King led were successful on a scale that they raised heaps of awareness throughout the country and even the world. The statement that ‘There is no need for further civil rights action in USA,’ is a false statement because as you can see in less than a month after King delivered his speech a blast killed four young girls in a Birmingham church. Future actions need to take place to prevent these major and minor disasters form happening. The Civil Rights impacted the world largely because if not for the rights being implemented black slavery would still be a common thing for the world. If my cultural group was being treated the same way as the blacks for King’s time I would speak up for our rights because no human should be treated like how they were treated. History should not repeat itself.