By Michael A. Schuman
"So, even if we are facing the problems of at the present time and day after today, I nonetheless have a dream..." those now recognized phrases have been spoken through Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., throughout the March on Washington in 1963. the various old milestones of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, existence are tested during this informative biography. reading the civil rights leader's existence from his start in Atlanta, profitable the Nobel Peace Prize, the march to Selma, his "I Have a Dream" speech, and his assassination. This ebook is constructed from MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: chief FOR CIVIL RIGHTS to permit republication of the unique textual content into book, paperback, and exchange variants.
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The movement had grown out of the frustration of African Americans living in the southern United States. In 1865 slavery was outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although African Americans were free from slavery, they were still not free from segregation. Segregation, or separation of the races, was legal in the South. Public schools, restaurants, movie theaters, buses and trains, and even public bathrooms and drinking fountains were divided for “white” and “colored” use.
She was later found guilty and fined $14 for breaking the city’s segregation law. Rosa Parks’s refusal to get out of her seat has since become a legendary event in the history of civil rights movement. Over the years, it has been said that Parks did not stand because she was tired and her feet were sore. But forty years later, Parks said that was not the case. “The real story is that I did not want to be treated in this manner. . ’”6 This was the test case the NAACP had been looking for. They knew Parks’s character and background would be examined closely by the police and the media.
L. responded by climbing to the second floor of the house and jumping out of the window. L. remained motionless. When he heard that his grandmother was all right, he simply got up and walked away. L. was twelve, his grandmother died. In shock, it is said that he again jumped from the second -story window. Just as before, his family called to him. L. got up. Whether King was trying to commit suicide or reacted in this manner for another reason is not known. But these were actions of a sensitive and emotional youngster.