Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. posted by Heather Tinus

Martin was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 19, 1929 in his grandparents home, he is the second of three kids. Martins father, King Sr. didn’t have much but worked hard. He preached at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. Martin wasn’t exposed to terrible discrimination as a child, he had white friends but he didn’t go to school with them. Once school began he wasn’t allowed to play with them anymore. Martin began his higher education at Morehouse College of Atlanta than moved on to Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and Boston University where he than got his Ph.D in sociology. Crozer was the first integrated school that Martin had ever attended. At Boston he met his future wife, Coretta Scott. Soon Martin took work as the minister at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, Coretta’s home town. King offered the basement of his church where the group of boycotters met, who began the bus boycott, because of this action, he was the one who mainly got blamed with phone calls and threats. His house was bombed and he was also arrested under false pretenses. Martin began head of SCLC a Christian organization, where he went around speaking and writing letters. Martin made a national appearance for more than forty thousand people at the Lincoln Memorial, an occasion celebrating the third anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education. He began more campaigning in Birmingham actively with volunteers, and nonviolently. Yet many were getting arrested and put into jail for peacefully protesting. King was able to talk business owners out of it because of the major business loss due to the arrests. Soon King was arrested and put into jail where he spent eight days. Another big event led by Martin was the March into Washington, where 250,000 blacks marched into Washington D.C. and Martin made his “I have a dream,” speech. This speech reached many Americans watching it on broadcasted to their home televisions. Than on April 4 Martin was shot on the balcony of his Motel while talking to a friend by an angered white. Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge influence on brining equal rights to blacks in his own peaceful ways. This is summary of just some of the many things he did for his fellow blacks.