Martin Luther King jr

Martin Luther King jr was born January 15th 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.  As a young child he had a great learning ability and by the age of 5 he could recite huge bible verses and when he was 6 he started singing gospel. And one time when he went home from church he had heard a priest from out of time holding a great speech so that's when he decided that he one day would be able to use such big words himself. 

While growing up he witnessed a lot of racism for instance on the buses it was completely normal for all the black people to have to get up from their seat for white people. This was something he grew a strong dislike of and started to hold speeches on racism and about "the black and the constitution". 

Since Martin was extremely smart he was able to start college 3 years earlier than most other people. And he also decided to become a priest so he attended an all black college. This was very stimulating for him so it made him more confident in his believes.

During his college time he read a lot of books and studied really hard. There were especially two people that inspired him the most. The first one was Gandhi and the second one was Thoreau. This is something you might recognize in the way he fought for equal rights for black and white people later in his life.

Martin Luther King is mostly known for his great speeches and his outstanding non-violent way of fighting equal rights for the blacks in America. It’s also a very known fact that he sacrificed his life for this cause when he was assassinated during a speech he held in a motel in Memphis, Tennessee in 68.