is, "Was Martin Luther King Jr.'s mission worth the trouble he went through to

accomplish what he did?" I will tell about the fight for civil rights, and the injustices.

then I will state the troubles Martin Luther King Jr. went through. Finally I will tell about

the life and accomplishments of King.

The fight for civil rights and racial equality is a very big accomplishment in

American history. It seems like ever since African Americans immigrated to the United

States they have been enslaved. This is mostly true, even in the 1790's ninety percent of

the African Americans were enslaved, the small population of freed blacks had already

established its own social institutions and had begun efforts to improve the conditions of

Most of these movements were centered in cities, which offered more liberty to

black residents than did rural areas. Even black slaves had some freedom of movement in

the cities and they generally possessed greater skills and had better access to information

By the end of the eighteenth century certain groups of blacks had formed their

own churches. For example the African Met

Parks incident. The Rosa Parks incident caused a bus boycott, this boycott continued into

Georgia on January 15, 1929. King was best known for belief of using non-violence to

site of SCLC headquarters and where he could also aid his father as the pastor of

King also participated in the "Freedom Rides" of 1961, and the Albany Movement's

Resistance against slavery in Boston was so strong that 2000 soldiers had to escort

The census which was taken in 1860 showed that there were 3,953,760 slaves in the

because the blacks wanted to be equal. Many people tried to defy these segregation laws,

The African Americans were determined to abolish slavery, during the 1840's

from the SNCC because of his non-violent strategies.

protests in Birmingham King writes "Letter From Birmingham Jail." Then on August 28,

and political organizations. Many blacks were still upset with the low literacy rate of

On December 5, 1955 King was elected as the president of the Montgomery

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