ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-1955: Martin Luther King Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1. During the duration of the boycott, which lasted a little over a year, Dr. King was arrested, his home was bombed and he received threats and personal abuse.
-1957: King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and achieve civil rights, until he was assassinated, which was created to control the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct non-violent protests in the service of civil rights reform.
-1958: King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom, is published.
-1955: Martin Luther King Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1. During the duration of the boycott, which lasted a little over a year, Dr. King was arrested, his home was bombed and he received threats and personal abuse.
-1957: King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and achieve civil rights, until he was assassinated, which was created to control the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct non-violent protests in the service of civil rights reform.
-1958: King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom, is published.
-1963: The March on Washington held August 28 is the largest civil rights demonstration in history with nearly 250,000 people in attendance. At the march, King mad his famous I Have a Dream speech. He was fighting for civil rights. This speech was his most popular and most life changing. The two greatest impacts of this speech was the ratification of the 24th amendment which allowed poll tax and the Civil Rights act of 1964 which did not allow discriminated education, employment and did not allow for segregated public areas. - 1963 was called the man of the year by Times Magazine for everything he accomplished.
-At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. (1964) He won this award for his no violent acts towards the civil rights movement.
- in 1965 King was awarded the American Liberties Medallion by the American Jewish Committee
-At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. (1964) He won this award for his no violent acts towards the civil rights movement.
- in 1965 King was awarded the American Liberties Medallion by the American Jewish Committee
I believe that Martin Luther King should be admired because of all the courageous acts he committed. He risked his own life for what he knew was the right thing to do. He wanted to give the next generation a better life and did not want segregation to be such a prominent problem anymore. If it wasn't for King I truly believe that America would not be where it is today in regard to civil rights. People would not be judged on what is on the inside but, what the color of their skin is. King changed the lives of many people back then and still today. He stood up and did the right thing knowing that it could cause problems in his own personal life. He never gave up, he died for freedom.