Martin Luther King

"Segregation is wrong, but things will get better in time", said Martin's father. write people start to think differently one day . We should be patient and wait, because you can't hurry change. It will come, but not soon. we have to wait for it.
Young martin did not agree with his father. "if you want to change things, you have to act", he thought. He knew himself what segregation meant. whenhe was very small, he played with a little with boy across the street from his house. His friend's name was Warren. When Martin started school, he looked for Warren, but he was not there. After school he went to Warren's house and asked to play with him. the boy's mother said that Martin could not play with Warren anymore, because Martin was black and his friend was white.
When Martin came homethat day, he was crying. He told his mother what had happened. "It doesn't matter what other people think", she told him, "you're as good as anyone else. Don't you ever forget that!".
Martin remember his mother's words. he knew that she was right. he was as good as any white boy. But as he grew older, he saw how white people treated black people in Atlanta.
Once when he was in the centre oftown, he walked into a white woman. It was an accident, but the white woman hit him on the face. When someone asked her why she had done this, the woman replied, "that little black bastard stepped on my foot," Martin's face hurt, but the name that she called him- "little black bastard"- hurt him even more.
When he started high school at the age of eleven, Martin began to make speeches. Of course, heoften spoke in church , but ay school he talked about the need for change in the South. when Martin was fourteen years old, he won a prize for one of his teacher to get his prize, and they returned to Atlanta by bus. When a white man got on the bus, there were no empty seats, so the driver told Martin to get up and give the white man his seat. Martin refused. Why should he give his seat to thisman? the bus driver became angry and called him bad names. Finally, Martin gave the white man his seat because he did not want to make trouble for his teacher. But he was angry. It was not fair that he had to stand while a white man sat in his seat. he did not want to have white people, but sometimes it was hard not to hate them.
SLAVERY AND THE SOUTH.
in 1929 when Martin Luther king was born inAtlanta, Georgia, most black people in America lived in the south. in fact, nine out of every ten African-Americans lived in the south. In every way their lives were worse than the lives of Southern whites. they were pooper, they lived in worse houses, their lives were shorter. most blacks in the south could not vote. Some black people who were alive in 1929 had been slaves. they had belonged totheir white owners, and they were treated like things, not people. white people could buy and sell slaves just like houses or land.
in the past many countries have used slaves . hundreds of years ago there were slaves in Rome and Athens. they worked on farms and in the houses of rich people, but they were not slaves forever. After some years, they became free men and women again.

But inNorth and South America slavery was different. in the sixteenth century people from European countries like Britain, Spain, and Portugal began to movie into North and South America. they cut down forest and cleared the land for farms. They needed men and women to work on their farms. where could they find them? the answer was Africa.
Men and women were taken from their homes in Africa and broughtto north and south America to work on farms and on roads. From about 1500 to 1850, European ships took at least 10 million men and women from Africa to become slaves in the Americas. the ships were very full, and the men and women did not have enough food, water, or air. Hundreds of thousands of Africans never reached America: they died on these slave ships.
When African slaves arrived in...