Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

            Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist priest and social leader that inspired the world and changed the United States of America's view point on people who were different from white people. He was born on January 15^th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.  He was a man who was brave enough to speak out to the United States and even the world. He knew he was going to be assassinated because he was risking his life to help his people and the nation get along better. When he died, he was happy knowing he changed the United States of America.

After Rosa Parks was arrested for not letting a white man sit where she was sitting on a city bus, King and his friends started protests to help stop bus segregation. In the end, black people refused to ride the buses because of money and separation from white people. When the police heard about the protests they arrested King and firebombed his house. But the protests continued on to let black people sit on buses wherever they would like. For thirteen months, the blacks either walked to work or they got rides from small car-owning populations in the city of Montgomery. Eventually, the loss of revenue led to the Supreme Court decision if to tell the bus company to stop segregation. The Montgomery Bus Company had to stop segregation on the buses. Finally, the boycott ended on December 20^th, 1956. King traveled the country to make speeches to end the segregation around the country.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero because he spoke to all people, black and white, and inspired the nation to help the Supreme Court decide that they are no different than the whites. Their skin tone may be different, but that doesn't matter, what matters is who they are inside. They started to realize he was correct and the some whites also started to protest against segregation.