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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Biography:

Martin Luther King Jr.

“ I say to you today, my friends that in spite of difficulties and frustrations of the movement, I Still Have A Dream”  

A great Baptist, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.  Martin was renowned by his ‘ I have a dream’ speech. 

  An American Pastor Martin Luther King Sr. married Alberta Williams king, and had four children. One of them was Martin Luther King Jr. King was extraordinarily close to his grandmother, and the prof to that is that when she passed away in 1940 the young King attempted suicide by trying to jump from a two story building, but thankfully he was saved. 

   Martin was so gifted that he skipped two grades in high school. King went to Booker T. Washington high school, but he went to Morehouse college in his native city of Atlanta.  

     King graduated from Morehouse college in 1948.  Later on in 1951 he got his divinity degree, and after that he married Coretta Scott (An American author ).  Later they would have four children named Yolanda, Martin, Dexter, and Bernice. 

      All this started with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus boycott started when a very famous civil rights activist named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, and ended up in jail. Parks had to spend the whole night in jail. You must be thinking how King helped in the Boycott. Well.. King participated in arranging public transportation in Montgomery. There was so much discrimination, and prejudice that Martin got arrested because of his act. Not only that King’s house was also bombed. That did not stop King’s dream of a colorblind society.

   He and his party in 1959  had a trip to India. This was not an official meeting, or trip, but it was just to honor Mohandas Gandhi and his tactics of raising your voice for your rights without violence and brutality.  In 1960 he and his family moved to their native city of Atlanta. And Surprisingly Martin won a Nobel peace prize. 

          From 1960-1965 this was the Golden era for Martin’s movement, because in these years like about 1963 an international assembly of 200,000 people gathered to fight for equal rights for everyone in America, but unfortunately things weren’t looking good in Los Angeles as riots took place.   

        King accepted one of his famous lines which were “ I am frankly tired of marching , I am tired of going to jail, living everyday under the threat of death. I feel discouraged now, and then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again.” Shortly about one year later King was assassinated while standing in his balcony of Lorraine Motel, by James Earl in 1968. 

      King’s ‘ I have a dream speech still inspires many to this date. America has 730 streets which were named after him. From a suicide attempting kid to Martin Luther King Jr. became a role model for kids of our generation. 

‘ If you can’t fly , then run

  If you can’t run, then walk 

If you can’t walk then crawl

l But by all means keep moving ‘ 

-Martin Luther King Jr.