Martin luther king jr. 7

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther king was an outstanding black American leader in the United States. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15,1929. His father was a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. His mother was a schoolteacher.

Martin Luther King confronted racism at a young age. When he was six years old, he had two white friends and his friend's parents broke them up from being racism. At the age of eleven, a woman called him Niger. He knew that he wasn't the only black person getting treated like that because he saw the something happen to different people. So he wanted to make a difference in the country that everybody will be equal! In December 1958, Martin was chosen to be head of the Montgomery Improvement Association. A black community to lead a boycott of the closed city bus to blacks formed that association.

The blacks started to complain and some even fought.

Blacks and whites were treated and had certain privileges very differently. Whites had a drinking fountain and blacks had a drinking fountain. They weren't allowed to drink from a white fountain if they were black, but the whites could drink anywhere they wish. If a black drank out of a white fountain, they would probably get yelled at and maybe go to jail. Everything had a sign on it: Whites, Blacks. Usually the whites fountain was nicer and cleaner, and blacks were dirty, ugly.

There wasn't just restrictions on drinking fountain, but schools. They had separate schools for blacks. The blacks couldn't learn in the same room as whites. If a black goes in a white school, they will get kicked out and punished. In the blacks schools, the teaching skills were very poor. The teachers didn't really care about...