Martin Luther King Biography

I’m an African American male and I was born on January 15, 1929. I am the second child of Martin Luther King Sr and Alberta Williams King. Along with my older sister, the future Christine King Farris , and younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. Michael King Sr. stepped in as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. He became a successful minister, and adopted the name Martin Luther King Sr.I grew up in the city’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood, then home to some of the most prominent and prosperous African Americans in the country. I graduated in 1948, King entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, where I earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree, won a prestigious fellowship and was elected president of predominantly white
We wanted , courtesy, the hiring of black drivers, and a first-come, first-seated policy, with whites entering and filling seats from the front and African Americans from the rear. African Americans represented at least 75 percent of Montgomery’s bus ridership. To make sure that the boycott would work with African Americans not riding the bus, the city’s African American taxi drivers charged only 10 cents. Which the same price as bus for African-American riders. On June 5, 1956, a Montgomery federal court ruled that any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But on December 20, 1956. Montgomery’s buses were integrated on December 21, 1956, and the boycott ended. The bus boycott lasted 381 days, Montgomery maintained segregated bus stops. I travel around the world giving speeches on nonviolent protests. But on August 28th, 1963, over 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The black, white, poor, rich all came together on this day. All fighting for the rights for African Americans to be treated the same, not segregated. I was the last speaker. My “ I have A Dream
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its Governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.” I told the crowd. In this Civil rights Movement, much was changed. One thing was the ratification of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution and Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination with employment, education and outlawed racial segregation in