A man who wanted to change the world. A man who knew from experience that people were still prejudice. A man named Martin Luther King Jr want to have equal right to African Americans around the world, but most people did like that idea. African Americans were still treated differently after so many years. For making a difference for the people he was murdered by a man who didn’t want anything to change. Martin Luther King Jr was an influential advocate of equal rights through his speeches, persistence, and campaigns. Martin Luther King Jr impacted through equal rights with his speeches. On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of …show more content…
He never forgot the time when, at about age six, one of his white playmates announced that his parents would no longer allow him to play with King, because the children were now attending segregated schools. Dearest to King in these early years was his maternal grandmother, whose death in 1941 left him shaken and unstable. Upset because he had learned of her fatal heart attack while attending a parade without his parents’ permission, the 12-year-old King attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window.”(Carson) Sometimes it’s ok to give up he just lose hope at the time. He has helped the African Americans deal with what was happening, and was trying to help. Like Martin, and the people in Selma, Alabama. They did a 5-day, and 54-mile march to get people aware of what was happening, and how they felt about it. He helped the people keep believing in what they were fighting for. That made it all over the area,and other started to do things like that to not lose