Martin Luther King, JR.
On January 19th, 1929, in the big city of Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Jr., the man who would forever change the course of the civil rights movement for blacks in America, was born. On this day, the man who would incredibly change the lives of African Americans would come into life, and the process in which he would effect the major aspects of the movement would begin. Martin Luther King, Jr. had an extremely rough childhood, in which he witnessed many things that would later effect the way in which he handled his life. "I had passed spots where Negroes had been savagely lynched, and had watched the Ku Klux Klan on its rides at night. I had seen police brutality of the worst kind, and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustices in the courts." (Martin Luther King 90) The things he saw and the things he experienced were eventually what caused him to strive for freedom for African Americans, and caused him to hate segregation. "I had grown up abhorring not only segregation but also the aggressive and barbaric acts that grew out of it." (Martin Luther King 90) King, although going through a lot as a young child, would fight through it all and eventually graduate from hi
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Approximate Word count = 2075
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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