Gateway Chronicle 2021

The Gateway Chronicle
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr is a man that is very important
in black history and is one of the key people
that we admire as we celebrate black history month.
As a social ‘activist,’ and Baptist minister Martin
Luther King Jr is known to be one of history’s
best leaders of the civil rights movement; this was
proved in 1964, when he was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. This is due to the fact that Martin
Luther King Jr dedicated his life and fought for the
human rights and equality of black people in America.
Inspired by Gandhi, with a drive of faith and
hope for fair equal treatment, Martin Luther King
Jr conveyed many speeches over to all Americans,
the most famous being the very emotional ‘I have a
dream.’ This made the Americans move their unfair
ways of thinking and King shifted the world vastly
– despite the fact that there is still much work to
be done to carry on and complete Martin Luther
King Jr’s dream in the current world, we are safely
making progress.
for non violence even further.
In conclusion, Martin Luther King Jr was a
very powerful, emotional and intelligent black
Martin Luther King Jr was born on the 15 th of
January 1929 in Atlanta. We can tell that he was
quite an intelligent student due to the fact that at
the age of only fifteen, King was offered a place at
Morehouse College, where he studied medicine and
law. After graduating in 1948, King earned himself
a Bachelor of divinity degree in Pennyslvania and
was crucially elected President of a predominantly
white class. He then enrolled himself into a graduate
program at Boston University and completed
his coursework in 1953. King got married to Coretta
Scott later, in 1953 – followed by the upcoming
of four children: Yolanda Denise King, Martin
Luther King III, Dexter Scott King and Bernice
Albertine King.
Martin Luther King Jr had become famous at
that time as an inspirational resistance to the
rules of the Supreme Court of segregated
seating on public buses in November of 1956.
For this reason, he therefore also became a
target for white supremacists as they tried
to stop him in many ways. For example, in
January 1956, white supremacists firebombed
King’s house. This was followed a couple of
years later, when on September 20 th 1958, Izola
Ware Curry, asked King whether or not he
was ‘Martin Luther King.’ After King’s reply,
he was stabbed and miraculously survived the
assassination attempt. This boosted his need
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