How Did Martin Luther King Impact The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was a very big deal in the 1950s and the 1960s. It was really big in the southern states because of segregation. Segregation is when blacks don’t have equal rights as whites and when they aren’t treated nicely. Some people wanted it some people didn’t. However, someone put an end to all of this. His name was Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael King Jr was born on January 15, 1929 the middle child of Michael King Sr and Alberta Williams King. In 1934 his father took a trip to Europe and when he came back he changed his and his son’s name to Martin Luther In honor of the German Church reformer Martin Luther. His Grandfather, A.D Williams, was the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church. When his Grandfather died, his father served as pastor. King went to Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, graduating in 1944.
He then went to Morehouse College. He first either wanted to study medicine or study law, but decided to study and major in sociology. He ultimately found the call to minister. He then
went back to Ebenezer Baptist Church to be the assistant and work with his father. In February 1948, He became the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church. On December 1, 1955, In Birmingham Alabama Rosa Parks a woman in the black community refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was later arrested.
This was one of the things that made MLK start the civil rights movement.He started by doing a bus boycott by having nobody in the black community ride the bus anywhere. This boycott went on for 381 days until the state government listened and got rid of that rule. MLK even took it one step further by doing Non-Violent direct action campaign in Albany in 1961. However, the campaign dissolved without gaining significant concessions. Their next target was Birmingham in 1963. He started a non-violent protest and everything they wanted to happen, Happened. As expected the police and fire department came down and started attacking the protesters. This made people in the white-community start believing in civil rights. After that he did The March on Washington and did his famous I Have A Dream
Speech. The awards Dr.King received were The nobel peace prize for his work in the civil rights movement. In 1968 his wife Coretta Scott King founded The King center in Atlanta Georgia as a memorial to her husband.In 1983 Congress passed legislation to make the third monday in January a national holiday in Honor of Dr.King. In 2000 he was inducted as a charter member into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. In August 2011 a Memorial was built for King in Washington D.C. In conclusion Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. did many things to help this nation. He helped by doing 381 day bus boycott in Alabama and by The March on Washington. He was a hero to this nation.