How Did Martin Luther King Put An End To Racism?

Racism is one of America's biggest disappointments since its year of its colonization.This epidemic has been a part of our history primarily since the European colonization of North America beginning in the 17th century. As a part of this colonization, Africans were kidnapped from their families and homelands and forced to become slaves.I asked myself what was their reasoning for treating my kind as such as a lesser being than them I found my answer in my research.

“Europeans believed the original inhabitants of America were heathens and savages who needed to be civilized through Christianity and European culture”( MLA ). This helped me come to the conclusion that at the beginning racism wasn't because of hatred of mankind but because of the corrupt mind of man throughout a period of time.

There have been several individual attempts to put a stop to racism throughout America. Today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most profound crusaders for racial equality. He has battled inequality in many ways, Dr. Kings is well known for his strong beliefs in nonviolent protest. Martin Luther King Used boycotts protests and marches throughout the nation as a
I would assume that he knew he would not live to see an old age since sadly this wasn't his the first attempt on his life. The assassination of 1968 was not the first but the second attempt on his life.12 years before Dr. King's death, King was nearly stabbed to death in Harlem by a mentally ill African-American woman who believed he was conspiring against her with communists. With this assumption, she stabbed him in the chest with a letter opener. He underwent emergency surgery, and remained hospitalized for several weeks but made a full recovery. The doctor who performed the operation said, “Had Dr. King sneezed or coughed the weapon would have penetrated the aorta he was just a sneeze away from death”. ( MLA