martin luther king jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an incredible leader who greatly advanced the civil rights movement. Early in his life, Martin Luther King Jr. went to very prestigious schools and won awards for his charismatic way of speaking. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was led by King, tried to put an end to segregated buses and racial injustice in general. He was sent to jail after leading the march in Birmingham, and there wrote a letter fighting for the rights of black people. King presented his nonviolent views of gaining equality through his famous "I have a dream" speech. Even though the first attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery turned into a "Bloody Sunday", King led yet a second one, which was successful. King's assassination is a topic of much controversy even today, leaving many questions unanswered. Although Martin Luther King Jr. faced many obstacles along the way, he succeeded in becoming one of the most influential and accomplished leaders of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King went to local segregated public schools, where he did very well. He went to college when he was fifteen and attended Crozer Theological seminary, and went to Bos
King became the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The SCLC participated in a march in Birmingham, Alabama, in which over a thousand children participated. Children as young as six participated. Many children were arrested. After that, things started to get more serious. Thousands of adults joined in and protested on the streets. The Birmingham police sent police officers with attack dogs and fire fighters with hoses to violently stop the protest. Because of the brutality of the police, many black spectators became upset. People threw rocks and bottles at the police. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that everything could be solved in a nonviolent manner. 'Nonviolence involves the willingness to love others, to attack forces of evil rather than individuals, and to forgive - merging Christian and Gandhian.' His nonviolent beliefs were one of the reasons why he opposed so strongly and outwardly to American involvement in the Vietnam War. The war especially took its toll on black Americans. Although blacks made up only ten percent of the American population, they were twenty percent of the fighting forces in Vietnam. They made up an even higher proportion of soldiers who actually fought and were injured. Most were conscripted to the war, because they, unlike white boys, were unable to attend university. There have been many investigations over the years about the assassination. Some believe that it was a white conspiracy, who opposed strongly to his concern to help the poor, particularly the sanitation workers. According to his family, King was murdered because over the past few years he had become more radical. He was now not only interested in the rights of blacks, but also in the rights of poor people and in ending the Vietnam war, which he spoke out about. They believed that the government and the FBI feared his new ideas and arranged to have him killed.
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