...Accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not only a prominent American civil rights activist, but also a social reformer and an author. He is often referred to as the human rights icon since he called for equal rights for all without resorting to violence or aggression. Read on to know about the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr. "Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them." Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King's original name was Michael King, Jr. His name was later changed to Martin after the German protestant leader Martin Luther. Martin Luther attended Booker T. Washington High School in Georgia and graduated in sociology from Morehouse College in Atlanta. After studying theology at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he pursued his doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University. King was awarded the Doctor of philosophy on June 5, 1955. Achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. The greatest achievement of King was undoubtedly as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. He defended the Americans with African descent and fought for their rights. Martin Luther was greatly influenced by Howard Thurman, a civil rights leader, theologian and educator...
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...Dr. King’s Inspiration on Me Born on January 15,1929 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was born. Dr. KIng has inspired me in so many great ways. He inspired me to stand up and do what is right and never give up doing it. Dr. King Jr. showed all of us that we can make big changes in our community by peacefully protesting. He also showed that if we stick together we can make changes in our community. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the one man to inspire many people throughout the United States because he led peaceful protests and he never gave up on what he wanted to accomplish. In December 1,1955 to December 20,1956 peaceful African Americans from Montgomery, Alabama boycotted the Montgomery bus system due to segregation ("Montgomery Bus Boycott."...
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...Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929, was both an influential minister and a civil rights movement leader. During his time as an activist, King helped to organize nonviolent protests, such as the March on Washington in 1963 where he delivered his powerful and famous “I Have a Dream” speech. In addition to his “I Have a Dream” speech, King also gave many other speeches, which all spoke out against racial segregation and discrimination. On December 25, 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon titled “Loving Your Enemies” at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In the speech “Loving Your Enemies” King said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his sermon “Loving Your Enemies” while he was in prison for committing non-violent civil disobedience during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. King’s quote refers to Matthew 5:44, which says “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” This section of the gospel of Matthew was a part Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, which Jesus delivered on the Mount of Beatitudes. In Jesus’ sermon he addressed the main principles of Christian discipleship. Through his “Loving Your Enemies” sermon, Martin Luther...
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...apartheid and being the first multi-racial president of South Africa. His presidency created a significant change in the perception and building of a multiracial society in South Africa and around the world. Nelson Mandela was also known to be a leader of a civil rights organization known as the African National Congress. The purpose of the African National Congress was to demolish racial segregation and discrimination. The two most significant social changes made by Nelson Mandela was his uniting of a fiercely divided country and his creation of a truly democratic society in South Africa. A great leader will always fight for what they believe in. Nelson Mandela's dream was building a society in which all South Africans could live in freedom and prosperity. He wanted a free, non-racial, and non-sexist society for all South Africans. In Mandela’s early years he was raised by the Thembu tribe located on South Africa’s southeastern coast. He wanted to escape the Thembu traditions of marrying a woman of his regent’s choice so he fled to Johannesburg. In Johannesburg, Mandela was able to find work at a Jewish law firm in 1942. His entry level position encouraged him to obtain a bachelor’s degree in law. Through this law firm, Mandela was introduced to many different ideas, communists, politicians, and the African National Congress. During this time, South Africa was ruled by a white government which believed in racial segregation and discrimination. “The government passed a series...
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...Professor D. P. Dash | Assignment Title | #2 Group AssignmentMartin Luther King Jr. - I Have A Dream | Due Date | Week 8 | Date Received | | DECLARATION | To be completed if this is an individual assignment: I declare that this assignment is my individual work. I have not worked collaboratively nor have I copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for me by another person. | Student ID | Student Name | Student Signature | Student 1 | | | | To be completed if this is a group assignment: We declare that this is a group assignment and that no part of this submission has been copied from any other student's work or from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for us by another person. | Student ID | Student Name | Student Signature | Student 1 | 4240138 | Danushka Nirmal De Silva | | Student 2 | 4235150 | Ngu Ing Sung | | Student 3 | 4237293 | Dashilla Ladaey | | Student 4 | 4237323 | Ahmad Akmal Afiq | | Student 5 | 100070566 | Lasse Svenning Jensen | | MARKER’S COMME Total Mark | | Marker’s Signature | | Date | | EXTENSION CERTIFICATE | This assignment has been given an extension by Unit Convenor | | Extended due date: | | Date Received | | Martin Luther King Jr. – I Have a Dream An analysis of a historically important leadership...
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...The individual I choose to write about is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The reason I chose to write about Martin Luther King Jr. is because he stood up for blacks through tough,hard times. Martin Luther King Jr. is a powerful figure that blacks tend to forget about what we did and went through so we can have the freedom and rights we have today. Martin Luther King Jr spoke out for justice for African Americans, for an end to racial discrimination, to the laws that embodied it and the many subtle, unconscious behaviors and assumptions that were supported by those laws. Racial discrimination in the USA had resulted in countless unnecessary and unjust deaths, and the despair and hopelessness of generations. Dr. King helped the Civil Rights movement in a tremendous way. What are the obstacles Marin Luther King had to overcome? The biggest obstacles Martin Luther King Jr. had to overcome was prejudice and racism. When it comes to prejudice many white people thought of blacks as generally inferior. They certainly did not want blacks to be seen much. Blacks were told, in no uncertain terms, to get to the back of the bus and only use rest rooms, drinking fountains, etc., marked for “colored” people. Even many of the less-prejudiced white people thought that blacks were fine as long as they kept in their place (kept to black neighborhoods.) Blacks were segregated from the whites because they were looked at as the lower class. Whites wanted blacks to be nothing but slaves. Another problem...
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...Faraj On the 4th of July 1776, 56 delegates to the Continental Congress signed a document that would not only declare independence of America from British colonial power but less than 200 years later, become the backbone of a new established America where the walls of discrimination and segregation would finally begin to deteriorate. The Declaration of Independence is a powerful document that has led to the development of equal rights and social justice within societies on a world context. More specifically, principles in this document were instrumental when argued by African American Civil Rights leaders in achieving equality and abolishing racial segregation and discrimination against African- Americans in the United States, during the African American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). Before the American Civil Rights Movement, laws known as Jim Crow laws had forced racial segregation of facilities and the prohibition of intermarriage. These laws were similar to the apartheid legislation and it became the law mainly in the south of America. Where there is inequality and injustice within a government, the people of the nation demand change. Since the Jim Crow laws were enacted, the laws that mandated racial segregation in public areas and the prohibition of intermarriage in the Southern United States were socially and morally unjust and this fuelled the American civil rights movement as the African-American’s were seeking to achieve equality and be entitled to equal opportunities...
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...Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, ‘“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter’” (Luther and Melvin). Martin Luther King Jr., the man with a dream, fought through discrimination to enable United States citizens to live more peacefully. Due to his work during the Civil Rights Movement and his tragic death, Martin Luther King, Jr. left a legacy of equality in America. As a child Martin Luther King, Jr. experienced racial discrimination first hand. Due to his skin color, King’s “friends” refused to play with him at a young age (Dubovoy). King stood emotionally wounded for the rest of his life, when his own best friends betrayed him. King did not want his children or anyone to feel discriminated against due to their...
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...Civil Rights in the Sixties The 1960s brought about social change in America. America elected the second youngest and the first Catholic president (John F. Kennedy) and the Anti-War Movement began. The Anti-War Movement was based on people mostly the youth of America protesting a war (Vietnam War) that they believed America could not win. At the same time people were protesting the war they were objecting to the social injustice surrounding minorities; thus began the Civil Rights Movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was instrumental in starting The Civil Rights Movement the yearlong battle for equal treatment on buses gave minorities the strength to fight for more equal treatment and gave rise to Martin Luther King Jr. who was elected by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to lead the boycott. During The Montgomery Bus Boycott whites tried to use the media to put out false stories by claiming the boycott have come to an end and that minorities settled for the same moderate desegregation plan that they received before the boycott. Public opion in Montgomery Alabama at first was against the boycott, but once the business community realized they were losing money because minorities were no longer shopping downtown their opion began to wane. Throughout the civil rights movement the media was a constant force some believe that without the media exposing the at times moving and often unsightly events of the movement that it would not advanced as much as it did. Some Southern...
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...In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a Letter from Birmingham Jail after arrested for peacefully protesting against segregation and racial discrimination in Birmingham, Alabama. The Jim Crow system created segregation laws for blacks and whites having separate bathrooms, schools, and restaurants that existed after the era of slavery. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had expected the support of numerous local religious figures in hopes of uniting to end racial terror. In his Letter from Birmingham Jail King recognizes and replies to every nine detailed criticisms created by the white church and its leaders. What is evident in this letter is that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses emotional, rational, and ethical to persuade those who read his letter. To get his readers feeling emotion King...
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...ensures citizen's ability to fully participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or political repression and protect the freedom of classes of people and individuals from unwarranted infringement into those rights by governments, private organizations and other entities. Many men and women help made a huge impact in changing the world during the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. Many men and women help make a difference during the civil rights. There were many but some just stood out in particular. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. are famous Civil Right leaders, often considered to be some of the greatest. They believed that African Americans should get more political power. Throughout the Civil Rights Movement they were always known as the people that TOOK action with what was given. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement”. The black businesses in the neighborhoods suffered tremendously and also the convenient stores. Riots and protest were mainly in the black neighborhoods. In the last three decades, Congress has put in place a number of civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination in educational programs...
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...deprived these people from numerous rights, practically everything that makes a man a free human being. During the time of racial segregation African Americans could be divested of housing, partaking at eateries, voting, and practically even citizenship. This treatment went on for one hundred years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves. These people could not be heard until a preacher from Atlanta, GA expressed his ideals on the issue of unfair racial discrimination. This man was named Martin Luther King Jr. During his life he addressed the cruelty of discrimination by leading nonviolent protests throughout the South; he was the leader of the civil rights movement for African Americans, and he had led Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Letter from Birmingham Jail," powerfully written by Martin Luther King Jr. with convincing and influential language, inspired countless individuals towards contesting for the equality of mankind....
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...Martin Luther King Jr. had a lot of courage with what he did in his life. The most amazing thing he did in his life was help try to stop discrimination. Martin Luther King was reading about Mahatma Gandhi this man led nonviolent protests,( History, history staff ). This inspired King so he soon led a nonviolent protest so African Americans could have equal rights. But before all of that he was also very smart and passionate, he skipped 9th and 12th grade only being 15 when he graduated and he also entered college at 15. ( Classroomhelp ). Without Martin Luther King Jr. elping to end Jim Crow LawsA major factor in the success of the movement was the strategy of protesting for equal rights without using violence., discrimination and without...
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...Americans have pride in them self saying that we are the land of freedom but if you look back in history not everybody could say they had freedom. In 1960 were a time of battles for racial justice and the war for equality. Dr. Martin Luther King JR led his troops through one of the most brilliant demonstrations of nonviolent protests this country. The protest was to send a message to the nation that equality must prevail, all men were created equal. Back in the 1960 black college students began sitting at lunch counters and other public places where they weren’t allowed or where segregation was present. 1963 Martin Luther king Jr he began to lead many campaigns against discrimination using large gatherings to protest it. The campaigns where stop by police and their dogs. Has well in 1963 he organized a march in Washington DC called the March on Washington. They did this march so that Kennedy who had created a bill could get congress to pass the bill that he created. Many people like whites and black gathered on the base of Lincoln memorial. Where Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous speech called I have a dream. “I have a dream,” he declared, “that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’ … I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (Staff, 2011)The...
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...Throughout the 1960s, progress in terms of racial equality became evident as the national government began to respond to protests held by groups of African Americans seeking equal rights. Since the ratification of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 signaled significant development, members of society often came to the conclusion that racial equality had been achieved. However, in reality, society was far from establishing this equality. Though, in writing, discrimination against individuals based on color could no longer take place, states still found ways to subtly put specific groups at a disadvantage. Even today, over half a century later, states continue to treat different groups of individuals unequally based on...
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