Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr.

He born in Atlanta, 1929, he was an American Baptist minister, civil rights advocate. Son of a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King studied theology at Boston University. From a young age he became aware of the situation of social and racial segregation blacks living in their country, and especially in the southern states.

Childhood and his life

Luther King was aBaptist pastor's son Martin Luther King and Alberta Williams King, a church organist. His father had the birth name Michael King, so that the future Nobel Peace Prize was put in principle the same name: Michael King, Jr. But on a trip to Europe in 1934 made ​​the family, the father, during a visit to Germany, decided to change the names used in honor of Martin Luther Protestant leader MartinLuther.

Since childhood, lived experience of a segregated society, at age six, two white friends told him that they were not allowed to play with it. This aroused the concern of Martin in knowing that he could not play with the whites of your school. A daily asked his parents for he could never play with the white, his father was always saying how whites think about blacks

When MartinLuther learned that the thought of whites was that blacks were inferior to them and that blacks did not have the right to look at or even touch them, he told his father before bed that he was going to make a difference and demonstrate that blacks and whites are equal, only changed the color of the skin, and show that all that was in the Bible was true, we are all equal brothers regardless ofskin color and race as we are made ​​in the likeness of God.

Martin's childhood was hard because since childhood he had the idea that we all had the same rights, no one was better than another just because of the color of skin and he was discriminate.

* Studies

King attended the Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta. No course or the ninth and thetwelfth grade and entered Morehouse College, a reserved young blacks, at age 15, without formally graduating secundaria.11 In 1948, he graduated in Sociology at Morehouse, 12 and enrolled in Crozer theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, which he left with a degree of bachelor of Divinity on 12 June 1951.13 King began in September of that year his doctoral studies in systematic theology atBoston University, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on June 5, 1955.

His Dream

The dream of Martin Luther King Jr, can be summarized by the speech he gave in Washington, DC where he express everything that black people felt and wanted. In few words in this speech he said his dream for the black people.

I will quote a part where he says the reality of people of color and how theyfelt at the time:
“A hundred years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, the black still is notfree, one hundred years later, the life of the black is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination, one hundred years later, the black lives on a lonely island in midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity hundred years later, the black is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.”

After posing thereality of black people, he demands the justice that have been denied to their people, he links it to a bad check which has not been charged with the justice or freedom of blacks, and that the only thing that he want is cash that check for justice and freedom for black people.

So in conclusion the Martin’s dream was, end with the racism, rejection and any negative attitude toward black...