Compare and Contrast Any Two Public Figure
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president as Martin Luther King Jr was not any president.
The races are also different. Mr Luther King Jr was black himself so he was the one being affected in his time. Abraham Lincoln just noticed how horrible it must feel to be used as a slave.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a civil rights leader, an author, a minister, and an orator. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, to a middle-class family, King spent most of his career advocating for civil rights and protesting American social injustices. King entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and graduated with a BA degree in sociology in 1948. Ordained as a minister, King graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania in 1951 with a BD degree. In 1955 he received a PhD from Boston University's School of Theology.
King's involvement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott helped to catapult him to national and international prominence. He soon became the voice of the nonviolent civil rights movement. King helped organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, and within a month he was elected president of the organization. King also gave moral and financial support to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which was also headquartered in Atlanta. King's “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” has become a classic statement about African American-organized demand for equal access to opportunity. While King systematically confronted social injustices, he was constantly harassed by the FBI and a target of personal and professional attacks.
King's “I Have a Dream” speech was the highlight of the 1963 March on Washington, where he spoke to the crowd of more than 200,000 people of his dream of justice and peace for all Americans. King was invited to Sweden in 1963 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and in 1964 he was selected by Time magazine as Man of the Year, the first African American to be so honored. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. In 1977 President
The races are also different. Mr Luther King Jr was black himself so he was the one being affected in his time. Abraham Lincoln just noticed how horrible it must feel to be used as a slave.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a civil rights leader, an author, a minister, and an orator. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, to a middle-class family, King spent most of his career advocating for civil rights and protesting American social injustices. King entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and graduated with a BA degree in sociology in 1948. Ordained as a minister, King graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania in 1951 with a BD degree. In 1955 he received a PhD from Boston University's School of Theology.
King's involvement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott helped to catapult him to national and international prominence. He soon became the voice of the nonviolent civil rights movement. King helped organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, and within a month he was elected president of the organization. King also gave moral and financial support to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which was also headquartered in Atlanta. King's “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” has become a classic statement about African American-organized demand for equal access to opportunity. While King systematically confronted social injustices, he was constantly harassed by the FBI and a target of personal and professional attacks.
King's “I Have a Dream” speech was the highlight of the 1963 March on Washington, where he spoke to the crowd of more than 200,000 people of his dream of justice and peace for all Americans. King was invited to Sweden in 1963 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and in 1964 he was selected by Time magazine as Man of the Year, the first African American to be so honored. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. In 1977 President