King led a campaign in Birmingham Alabama to confront the sin of racial discrimination. African Americans in the south were not given the right to vote, even though the 14th and 15th amendment state that anyone born in the U.S. has the right to vote despite their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. King held the Montgomery Bus Boycott because to end the segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Four days before the boycott had begun Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white gentleman on a bus; she was arrested and fined. His father and grandfather played a huge role as mentors to King. Morehouse College President Benjamin Elijah Mays taught Martin Luther King and served as a mentor to him. By the mid-20th century, blacks were still forced to use separate public utilities and schools from the superior ones reserved for whites, they suffered constant discrimination in employment and housing, as well as abuse and lynching from some whites, and they were unable to fulfill their right to
King led a campaign in Birmingham Alabama to confront the sin of racial discrimination. African Americans in the south were not given the right to vote, even though the 14th and 15th amendment state that anyone born in the U.S. has the right to vote despite their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. King held the Montgomery Bus Boycott because to end the segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Four days before the boycott had begun Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white gentleman on a bus; she was arrested and fined. His father and grandfather played a huge role as mentors to King. Morehouse College President Benjamin Elijah Mays taught Martin Luther King and served as a mentor to him. By the mid-20th century, blacks were still forced to use separate public utilities and schools from the superior ones reserved for whites, they suffered constant discrimination in employment and housing, as well as abuse and lynching from some whites, and they were unable to fulfill their right to