Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King was a great man who worked for racial equality and civil rights in the United States of America.[pic 1]

        He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.

        What do we know about his private life?

Martin Luther King had a brother , Alfred, and a sister, Christine.

He is from a pastoral family.

        Young, Martin was an excellent student in school; he skipped grades in both elementary school and high school. He enjoyed readings books,singing, riding a bicycle, and playing football and baseball.

Martin entered Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, a university reserved for black boys when he was only 15 years old.

Martin experienced racism early in life, he's growing up in segregationist America. He decided to do something to make the world an better and fairer place. After graduating from college in 1948 and getting married to Coretta Scott 5 years after, They had four children. Martin became a minister and moved to Alabama. In 1953, Martin Luther King became pastor of a Baptist church.

In 1955, he earns a doctoral degree.

During the 1950’s, Martin became active in the movement for civil rights and racial equality. He participated in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott with Rosa Parks to defend the right to vote, desegregation and employment of ethnic minorities and many other peaceful demonstrations that protested the unfair treatment of African-Americans. Martin Luther King is arrested during this campaign. Martin Luther King's house is attacked with the incendiary bomb on the morning of January 30, 1956 and is also a victim of physical violence.

The impact of this victory led Martin Luther King to found the SCLC (Conference of Southern Christian Leaders) with other black personalities and to become its president. A supporter of non-violence, he decided to extend the struggle for civil rights of blacks to the entire United States.

He is considered one of the greatest American speakers.

In 1958 he expounded his point of view in his first book Stride toward freedom; the Montgomery story.

"Men often hate one another because they are afraid of each other; they are afraid because they do not know each other; they do not know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. " Martin Luther King

In 1959, he wrote The Measure of A Man, an attempt to portray an optimal structure of political, social and economic society.

He is at the head of major campaigns for civil rights, the right to vote blacks, the end of segregation, better education. He is arrested several times.[pic 2]

He delivered a famous speech on August 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the march for jobs and freedom: "I have a dream". He calls for a country where all men share the same rights in justice and peace.

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