...Dr. Martin Luther king junior was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights movement from the mid fifty's until his death by assassination. I will be talking about his family and how many children he has, his early life influences, education and job, interests, hobbies, and why I chose him. Dr. martin Luther king junior was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia at his big family home. Martin Luther King Jr. was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Martins father, grandfather, and martin were all ministers. But martin made the biggest impact of them all. Martin wanted to be able to do the same thing with as white people white people. Martin Luther king junior was married to Coretta king...
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...Haughey 1 Landon Haughey. Moran La 11 13 February 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Who is Martin Luther King Jr.? He was a Baptist Minister and Social Activist who was assassinated in 1968. He was a great man who changed the world and formed it into what it is today. His children are still alive to this day. Martin Luther King Jr. came from a comfortable middle class family and grew up in Georgia. He was a very religious man. His father and grandfather and himself were Baptist preachers. He and his siblings had a happy childhood. Until they were exposed to the harsh racial segregation of the South. His life is deeply affected by racism and segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. did many significant acts that changed society. The Montgomery Bus...
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...Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 Cynthia Clayton PSY/300 February 24, 2014 Geraldine Juchniewicz Martin Luther King, Jr. “Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.”Martin Luther King (2014). Among many efforts, King headed the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. According to Martin Luther King Jr (2014), “Through his activism, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and other areas of the nation, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” According to Martin Luther King, Jr (2014), “King was the youngest to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. King was assassinated in April 1968, and continues to be remembered as one of the most lauded African-American leaders in history, often referenced by his 1963 speech,” "I Have a Dream." In his young days Martin family grew up in a poor farming community, they grew up in a secured and loving environment where faith was an important part of their daily lives. His father tried to protect his children from racism but failed. Martin tried to follow in his father’s footsteps but often rebelled during his adolescence years, Martin questioned his faith and in his...
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...The Drum Major Instinct. Martin Luther King, Jr. remains arguably the most recognizable African American figure in world history. First thrust into the international spotlight courtesy of his leadership of a boycott of the public bus system in Montgomery, Alabama, where he was pastor of a local church, King became the lightning rod for the civil rights movement that emerged in the wake of the successful boycott. During the 1960s he gave innumerable speeches characterized by oratorical genius, led a succession of mass marches in the heart of segregated America and helped to reconstruct American race relations before his assassination in 1968. Ever since Montgomery he has attracted the attention of biographers and historians keen to understand what made him such a magnetic and inspirational leader and what made the story of the civil rights movement so compelling. Martin Luther King is most remembered for a speech given during one of the finest hours of the civil rights movement -- a sermon that set the moral tone for the movement. But while the Aug. 28, 1963, sermon "I Have A Dream," delivered during the March on Washington, framed much of Martin Luther King Jr’s notions of a free America, it was not the speech that defined his legacy. One of the world's best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Martin Luther King Jr., synthesized ideals drawn from many different cultural traditions. Recent studies of him emphasize the extent to which his ideals were rooted...
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...Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist from the 1950 to 1968 with a strong religious background. A strong advocator for all minorities, King did all in his power to end barriers of community, poverty, racism and militarism. The principle he focused more on, however, was racism. King defined racism as prejudice, apartheid, ethnic conflict, anti-Semitism, sexism, colonialism, homophobia, ageism, or discrimination against disabled groups and stereotypes (Haskins). Later turning his efforts to poverty, King believed that the United States should have equal rights for all men, women and children. Martin Luther King Jr. had a strong philosophy of non-violent protests, called civil disobedience, to which he gained supporters, changing the jurisdictions of racism and poverty to create the American Dream for all. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, to Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Born as Michael King Jr., King lived in Atlanta, Georgia (How Did Martin). However, in honor of minister and civil-rights activist Martin Luther Baptist, his parents gave him the name Martin. In 1931, King’s father became the lead pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a very successful minister as his father and grandfather had been. A very intelligent man, King skipped ninth and eleventh grades, graduating from Booker T. Washington High School at the age of fifteen. Dealing with segregation at a young age, King believed...
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...Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. He passed away April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. He increased the nonviolent movement that led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and 1965 Voting Rights Act. King achieved the civil rights, social reform, religion, theology, as well as literature. He grew up under the influence of the church, along with the family tradition of independence. He was titled Michael Luther King Jr., but after the decease of his paternal grandfather, king’s father reciprocated their first name to Martin to credit the grandfather’s emphasis that he had originally accustomed that name to his son in the days when child birth certificates were uncommon for blacks. His parents believed in nonviolence...
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...step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout his life Martin Luther King Jr. wanted equality and everyone to live together as one nation. Dr. King took what was in his heart and used it to change America. He believed that all people were created equal, even through times of discrimination he worked to bring the people of the United States of America together. Martin Luther King Jr. worked hard for what he believed in to fulfill his dream and change America for the better. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and a social activist who worked for the equal rights of African Americans. He played a key role in forming the equal civil rights we have today. King drew...
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...Title: Outline Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC’s Meet the Press in 1965 Instructor: Eric Maass Course: PHI103: Informal Logic Author: Amanda Manley Date: 11/17/2014 I am doing my outline on Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC’s Meet the Press in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known for his contribution to the African American civil rights movement in the United States. Born Michael King, Jr. on January 15, 1929, King was the son of a reverend and a former teacher. The future activist was skeptical about Christianity from an early age. Despite his doubts about his own faith, King went on to graduate from Crozer Theological Seminary and became a Baptist minister when he was twenty-five, practicing public speaking skills that would eventually make him one of America's greatest orators. By the same time, King was working as an executive committee member for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Having grown up in a segregated environment, King was already aware of the disparity in civil rights for African Americans. He took a stand against segregation in 1955, by leading the first nonviolent Negro demonstration - a bus boycott that resulted in a law that prevented segregation on public transportation. The next year, King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and began to write and deliver speeches across the United States and the world. While he took the ideals for his organization and mission from...
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...Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King was a Baptist minister and a social activist who played a major role as being a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He had a huge impact on race relations in the United States during the mid-1950s and fought for equal freedoms for blacks and whites. Dr. King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, created many inspirational speeches, and played a great role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States. He also helped create the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and many other awards and honors for his leadership actions. On April 4, 1968, just after 6 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot and killed. The civil rights leader was in Memphis, Tennessee to support a sanitation workers’ strike. At the time, Dr. King was standing on the balcony just outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel. He was just about to leave for dinner when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the jaw and hit his spinal cord. Martin Luther King Jr. was pronounced dead at 39 years old after his arrival at the Memphis hospital....
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...Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy wanted to secure and protect progress on civil rights in the United States. King is recognized by two Christian churches; A Baptist minister, and King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott in which he used his ability and skills to get black and white support. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, King raised public agreements of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest speakers in U.S. history. Through this peaceful...
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...Williams King was born on July 30,1930 in Atlanta, Ga. A.D.King was third child of Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King Sr. He wasn’t like his brother, he were a little rough at times. He depended on his toughness to build his characteristics in their neighborhood. He didn’t focus in his studies like his other siblings. He started a family as a teenager, and married on June 17, 1950 to Naomi Barber who conceived five children for him. King refused to follow his father ministries but begin to help a little later. King graduated from Morehouse College and decided to become a pastor at Mount Vernon First Baptist Church in Newnan, Ga. He and Martin Jr were arrested in 1960 for the lunch counter sit in that happened in Atlanta. A.D.King became a leader of the Birmingham Campaign while being a pastor in Ensley, Alabama. King residences was bombed on May 11, 1963. After the bombing of his house took place thousands of people wanted revenge and tried to riot Downtown Birmingham Alabama. A.D. King tried to stop rioting before someone is brutally harmed. He stated that they should “stand up for their rights but in a non-violent way. A.D.King was also a strong believer of the non-violent movement as well as Dr. King. He was able to stay behind the scenes unlike his brother. As one of the members stated “Not being in the limelight never seemed to affect him but because he stayed in the background, many people never knew that he was deeply involved also (Johnson, “A Rights Activist).King...
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...bad and good impact on society. The one famous person I can think of is Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King was both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist. Through his leadership, he had a great part in ending the legal separation of African American from Caucasians. King created the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights of 1964. King was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King’s grandfather, A.D. Williams was also a minister. King’s father came from poor families that were sharecroppers. King’s father was also a minister. King came was raised by a family of believers and had a strong belief in faith. He grew up in a loving and secure environment and didn’t have to worry about being unstable. King grew up know right from wrong and to turn the other cheek when people do things against you. His morals values were important to him and he lived by what he believed. King followed his dad’s footsteps and became a minister also. Even being from a poor family, He earned a sociology degree from Morehouse College and then attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. King was later a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama. He wanted to make a different and not let his status of growing up poor make be an excuse. Reinhold Niebbuhr, a theologian, help mentor King and it had a strong impact on him. It was the best thing that could happen...
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...The Leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Abstract The visionary leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. influenced a nation, and ultimately affected a dramatic change in the area of Civil Rights. The achievements he accomplished in the arena of Human rights still serve as a platform for social change today, even decades after his death. Martin is hailed as a classic Charismatic and Transformational Leader, whose masterful rhetorical skills and personalized leadership empowered many Americans to stand up and claim their rights as American citizens. This paper will provide an analysis of Martin Luther King’s leadership style, and speak briefly about its development. We will discuss his background and the factors that greatly influenced his success as a leader. We will also cover Martin’s application of influence tactics, such as rational persuasion and inspirational appeals, and reveal an almost textbook ideal of leader, follower and situation dynamics. In general, we will discuss his vision and finally pinpoint the factors that ultimately led to his rise in power. “Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Introduction Of all of the leadership styles that have been studied, observed and researched throughout the ages, Charismatic and Transformational Leadership, are cited as being the most powerful. Martin Luther King Jr. is definitely one of the most charismatic and transformational...
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... the two that stand out in my mind are Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here we will look back and discuss their contributions to society as a whole, the problems or issues that they resolved, and how they were able to come up with their solutions. Contributions to Society Self made multi-billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. Everyone in America recognizes the name Bill Gates; it is hard not to be famous when you are the richest self-made man in America. The contributions to society made by Mr. Gates are numerous, but most notable and arguably his best is his company Microsoft, the world’s largest software production company. From a small, no name company formed in 1975 Bill Gates worked countless hours and in no time was able to bring his company to a multi-billion dollar corporation. Eventually, Bill Gates knew that his money and his wife could help the rest of society as his mother had done as a civic leader. In the year 2000, Bill and his wife Melinda formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation’s primary goal was to further the support of education and health in low-income communities around the country. In 2006, he stepped down from full time at Microsoft to dedicate more time to the foundation. Bill Gates and his wife have donated $28 billion dollars to charity to support their cause (Bill Gates, 2012). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in...
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...ordinance. After word of this incident reached the black community, 50 African- American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest the segregation of blacks and whites on public buses. With the support of most of Montgomery's 50,000 blacks, the boycott lasted for 381 days until the local laws segregating African-Americans and whites on public buses was lifted. Ninety percent of African Americans in Montgomery took part in the boycotts, which reduced bus revenue by 80%. A federal court ordered Montgomery's buses desegregated in November 1956, and the boycott ended in triumph. A young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization that directed the boycott. The protest made King a national figure. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career....
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