Who Is Martin Luther King Jr Unjustified?
Even though some people didn't agree with Martin Luther King Jr., his assassination was unjustified because the whites were scared that blacks would someday have equal rights to them and he also fought through segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader born on January 15, 1929 and died April 4, 1968. He was a pastor at a church named Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. He had 2 sons, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King III, and 2 daughters Yolanda King and Bernice King. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Memphis, Tennessee. He is mostly known today because of his speech, "I had a dream". The cause of his assassination was the because the blacks outnumbered whites and that made the white people scared so they shot him in Tennessee while he was standing on his balcony and a bullet struck him in his jaw and different parts of his spinal cord.
Alot of people didn’t agree with Martin Luther King because he was an …show more content…
African American male and the whites didn’t want him to encourage the other African American to stride for freedom. The only people that really listened to him was the people who were African American and wanted to end segregation. The time of segregation was revolutionary and total chaos. He was also member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where he preached.
Martin Luther King Jr.fought through segregation in many ways.
He couldn't look at white people, go to school with the white people, or talk to the white people. Him and Rosa Parks went through the same things as children growing up through segregation. Blacks were treated horribly back when segregation was around. Most of the black people who looked, talked, or got near the white people were killed or imprisoned.
The whites thought that one day the blacks would some day gain equal rights as them. The blacks outnumbered the whites and in some states but in others didn't so they took advantage of that. The states where the blacks did outnumber the whites, that's when they started treating them without respect. In 1964 segregation was abolished by the Supreme court. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all state requiring segregation.
In conclusion Marin Luther King Jr. assassination was assassination was unjustified because the whites were scared that blacks would someday have equal rights to them and he also fought through
segregation.
Alot of people didn’t agree with Martin Luther King because he was an …show more content…
African American male and the whites didn’t want him to encourage the other African American to stride for freedom. The only people that really listened to him was the people who were African American and wanted to end segregation. The time of segregation was revolutionary and total chaos. He was also member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where he preached.
Martin Luther King Jr.fought through segregation in many ways.
He couldn't look at white people, go to school with the white people, or talk to the white people. Him and Rosa Parks went through the same things as children growing up through segregation. Blacks were treated horribly back when segregation was around. Most of the black people who looked, talked, or got near the white people were killed or imprisoned.
The whites thought that one day the blacks would some day gain equal rights as them. The blacks outnumbered the whites and in some states but in others didn't so they took advantage of that. The states where the blacks did outnumber the whites, that's when they started treating them without respect. In 1964 segregation was abolished by the Supreme court. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all state requiring segregation.
In conclusion Marin Luther King Jr. assassination was assassination was unjustified because the whites were scared that blacks would someday have equal rights to them and he also fought through
segregation.