Martin Luther King Speeches

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” When I think about his name, I think about a strong and independent African American leader that constantly lead nonviolent protest in the United States of America. Growing up, student's never learn all the information there is to know about Dr. King. From the basics, I knew only certain things about Dr King, like who he was and what he did for our country. In my junior year of high school, I had to write a research paper on Dr. King, so then, I learned a lot of information that I never knew about him. It was not until this year that I found out that he had cheated on his wife. Thinking back on it, I did not know why people never expected Dr. King to make mistakes. Afterall, he was still a human who was bound to
Martin Luther King Jr was a man who changed the lives of many African American individuals living in America. Dr. King was a well known social activist in the American civil rights movement that took place around the 1950’s. Dr .King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” that took place in Washington, DC. on August 28, 1963. Unfortunately, Dr. King got shot in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee by a sniper while standing on the balcony of his hotel, the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, after returning from leading a peaceful protest in support of striking sanitation workers. On January 15, 1928, Dr. King entered this world in Atlanta, Georgia. King became a part of his father's church at a very young age. He also ended up going to Booker T. Washington High School. From his prior knowledge, King ended up skipping a couple of grades and started attending college at the age of fifteen. From college, King graduated with a degree in Sociology in 1948 from Morehouse College and the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee. Although he did receive an a degree in Sociology, Dr. Kings aspiration was to become a
Kings humanization process was when he included a letter that was written by a ninth-grade white student from White Plains High School. The girl stated that, “"While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze." By Dr. King including this letter, he is attempting to show that just because certain people act one way, you cannot think that everyone acts only one specific way. When it comes to humanizing King, it shows his softer side since he took the time to quote the girl from the high