It started on Thursday, December 1st, 1995 when a forty-eight year old women, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat after an exhausting day at work. Rosa Parks is arrested and booked for violating the Montgomery City Code. On the evening Rosa Park was arrested, local civil rights leaders, including E.D. Nixon and Martin Luther King, was planning a citywide boycott. Dr. King is being elected as the leader of the boycott because it felt he would have stronger credibility with the black community because he have less enemy in the community.(biography.com) For the boycott, every single African-Americans in Montgomery would walk to work instead of riding the bus and the boycott lasted for three-hundred and eighty-two days. This boycott later also influenced other African-American communities in the south to do similar boycotts. (ushistory.org)
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his most famous speech “I Have a Dream” on August 28th, 1963, under the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Later, Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize with fifty-four thousand dollars, which he donated all of it to the furtherance of civil …show more content…
King has changed America, no actually, Dr. King has change the world, he has changed the way how white people see others with colors. In Dr. King's view, the color or the race of someone should not be something that can change the way another person treats him or her. Even Though, in today’s society, there is still lots of racist cases happening right now around the world, but Dr. King still used his words and his actions to make this world a more equal place than before. He did make the United States a country where there is actual freedom and rights for everyone, no matter if they are black. You might have a question like this: “If President Abraham Lincoln already fought the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, why would the white people are still being racist to African-Americans?” But remember, when President Lincoln started the American Civil War in 1861, his goal was not to make African-Americans have the equal rights, his goal was to abolition slavery. So after the Civil War, there was less slavery in America but that doesn’t mean that African-Americans have the same equal right as white people do. And Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the person who later, about a century after the Civil War, made most people with colors have the same rights as white