It all started with one little bus boycott that changed history, forever.
Martin Luther King grew up in South America, where at the time, everything was segregated. Toilets, taps, entrances and even more had a white and a black section. The whites were assisted first, blacks assisted last and whites got the better of everything, blacks had to put up with the law according to segregation.
So as a child, he had to put up with this racial behaviour.
His first racial experience was when he went over to his white neighbours house to play with their son. The dad answered the door and through a little crack said "You can't play together anymore because he's white and you're black". From that moment one he noticed everything. Before he had a child's innocence but now he had a rage inside of him to change this nonsense.
His father was a minister. He went home to his dad one day when he was probably in high school and said "I want to become a minister, to help people in the south". He went to a special school for budding ministers in the North and it was less racist there. He met a beautiful girl Coretta Scott and married her. He came back to the South to help his family.
In Montgomery, a black woman was sitting in the white section of the bus. She was asked to move but she refused and got arrested. This started the bus boycott. Martin and his friends got the black people in town to NOT ride the buses. This went on for ages but he finally got a telegram from the US Supreme Court saying segregation on buses is illegal. This was the start of a new direction in history.=
Martin begin to lead black people in the South but One day his friend ran in and told Martin his house was bombed. Rushing home, he saw smoke on his house but his family alright. The whites had bombed his house because he was leading the blacks but he didn't respond with violence. He just gave powerful speeches to encourage the blacks to keep fighting for freedom instead. Martin kept leading powerful non violent marches to ban segregation.
He organised a march many years later to march in Bellingham, the racist city in all of the South. Martin really wanted to make a message. He took the blacks and kept marching for freedom even though blacks kept getting knocked down and battered and bruised. One day though, the mayor ordered the police to knock them down but they didn't. They had enough of having blood in their streets from the cruelty of their bats so the mayor told the blacks that blacks could eat, sit, go to the toilet etc. wherever they want.
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On the ride back to his hotel, Martin sat in the whites only section of the bus and it was the best ride of his life. There was no longer segregation but there was a new problem: blacks had less pay and not as much rights as whites but this new generation of blacks that faced this problem had thought their only way to solve this was with violence so again Martin Luther King gave powerful speeches and marched non violently.
On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people of both black and white gathered under the Lincoln
Memorial to hear one of Martin's greatest speeches ever, I have a Dream, also his last speech ever to be given. Several years later, Martin was standing on the balcony of his hotel when a shot rang out.
Martin Luther King had been shot on the 6 April, 1968 at 6:01 pm. He was an icon for all people across the globe for Civil rights. He won many awards and got arrested many times for what he believed in. In 1963 he won the Nobel Peace Prize and was named man of the year by time magazine.
A man who spent 13 or so years of his life working for civil rights and integration was fatally shot. These 13 Years of his life has changed history forever because he stood up for what was right and gave us all freedom today.
It all started with one little bus boycott that changed history, forever.
Martin Luther King grew up in South America, where at the time, everything was segregated. Toilets, taps, entrances and even more had a white and a black section. The whites were assisted first, blacks assisted last and whites got the better of everything, blacks had to put up with the law according to segregation.
So as a child, he had to put up with this racial behaviour.
His first racial experience was when he went over to his white neighbours house to play with their son. The dad answered the door and through a little crack said "You can't play together anymore because he's white and you're black". From that moment one he noticed everything. Before he had a child's innocence but now he had a rage inside of him to change this nonsense.
His father was a minister. He went home to his dad one day when he was probably in high school and said "I want to become a minister, to help people in the south". He went to a special school for budding ministers in the North and it was less racist there. He met a beautiful girl Coretta Scott and married her. He came back to the South to help his family.
In Montgomery, a black woman was sitting in the white section of the bus. She was asked to move but she refused and got arrested. This started the bus boycott. Martin and his friends got the black people in town to NOT ride the buses. This went on for ages but he finally got a telegram from the US Supreme Court saying segregation on buses is illegal. This was the start of a new direction in history.=
Martin begin to lead black people in the South but One day his friend ran in and told Martin his house was bombed. Rushing home, he saw smoke on his house but his family alright. The whites had bombed his house because he was leading the blacks but he didn't respond with violence. He just gave powerful speeches to encourage the blacks to keep fighting for freedom instead. Martin kept leading powerful non violent marches to ban segregation.
He organised a march many years later to march in Bellingham, the racist city in all of the South. Martin really wanted to make a message. He took the blacks and kept marching for freedom even though blacks kept getting knocked down and battered and bruised. One day though, the mayor ordered the police to knock them down but they didn't. They had enough of having blood in their streets from the cruelty of their bats so the mayor told the blacks that blacks could eat, sit, go to the toilet etc. wherever they want.
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On the ride back to his hotel, Martin sat in the whites only section of the bus and it was the best ride of his life. There was no longer segregation but there was a new problem: blacks had less pay and not as much rights as whites but this new generation of blacks that faced this problem had thought their only way to solve this was with violence so again Martin Luther King gave powerful speeches and marched non violently.
On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people of both black and white gathered under the Lincoln
Memorial to hear one of Martin's greatest speeches ever, I have a Dream, also his last speech ever to be given. Several years later, Martin was standing on the balcony of his hotel when a shot rang out.
Martin Luther King had been shot on the 6 April, 1968 at 6:01 pm. He was an icon for all people across the globe for Civil rights. He won many awards and got arrested many times for what he believed in. In 1963 he won the Nobel Peace Prize and was named man of the year by time magazine.
A man who spent 13 or so years of his life working for civil rights and integration was fatally shot. These 13 Years of his life has changed history forever because he stood up for what was right and gave us all freedom today.