Martin Luther King Jr. And The Civil Rights Movement

Not before a few decades before, black people were not treated the same as white people, in the south, black people couldn’t take the same seat as white people, they couldn’t vote, and even though they weren’t slaves, black people were paid worse than white people. There was an incident, where workers were sent home because of bad weather, and the black workers were only paid for the hours they worked, however the white workers were paid for the whole day. This event led to a protest, which was led by a man, named Martin Luther King Junior. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on 1929, January 15, in Atlanta, Georgia. As a Baptist minister, he became a civil right activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and