How Did Martin Luther King Show Courage

Martin Luther King is known for being one of the most influential human beings of American history. His great courage of standing up for civil rights for all blacks, everywhere was astonishing and remarkably courageous in many ways. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929, during his early ages of life his own mother refused him to have any sort of relationship with whites due to the amount of criticism and deaths upon a black men and women. When he became a Civil Rights activist, he suffered through death threats, beatings, bombs, prison, and so much more. Martin, followed after his own father, Martin Luther King, Sr., who was a minister and also was a preacher for the right of all equal men. Martin Luther King, Jr., wanted the end of segregation
Segregation was a major issue for America from about 1896 to 1954, where blacks were separated and saw as pets instead of humans. If you were a colored man, woman, or even child you would not be allowed to drink from the same water fountain as a white person, go to a restaurant that wasn’t labeled ‘colored only’, and you were not even allowed the right to seat in the front of a bus, if you were black you had to either move so another white person could sit there or sit in the back if there was room. When Martin Luther was born, legal segregation was legal all in the South and to be thought of at the time as “normal”. In the biography of Martin Luther King, the book states that, “ To King, the right to vote was the major key to equal rights an end to segregation. He spent the next two years flying from town to town making speeches to raise money and change people’s minds. This effort was called the Crusade for Citizenship” (Schuman #). Martin knew from day one he needed to do something to overcome this atrocious law. His mother at a young age