Person+of+Perseverance

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 15, 1929- April 4, 1968

The story of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. is an American tale that at times it feels untrue. Martin Luther King perservanced though so many bariers. He orginized many peaceful protest to stop segeation against African American in the south of the United States. King was a main leader in the civil rights movement. The movement began in Selma, Alabama when a fellow civil right leader, Rosa Parks was asked to move her seat on the bus for a white man but didn't and got arrested. Martin Luther King sparked the Selma bus boycott. Dr. King was arrested after beginning the boycott, one of the many times he was arrest. In 1963 King lead the March on Washington which was the largest political rally for human rights in United States history. At this March on Washington Martin Luther King delivered he famed "I Have A Dream" speech. a famous entry from the speech is //"...Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!// //But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"// In 1964 Martin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. While on a baloncy on April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death. The person who killed him is still unknown but people how multiple places were the bullet could of been shot from. On November 2, 1983, January 15 was nationally made by President Ronald Reagan as Martin Luther King Jr. By January 2000, the day what finally reconized by all fifty states. Today Martin Luther King's legacy lives on as a inspiration to all people and the person that changed the world forever.