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Martin Luther King Jr Informative Speech

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African Americans were strongly committed to winning their civil rights. They were threatened, beaten, attacked by dogs, sprayed down with hoses, trampled over, abused, and even murdered when they tried to stand up for their rights. The people, who never gave up, tried harder to achieve their freedom. Martin Luther King Junior had a dream; he had a dream that one day all men would be treated equal no matter the color of their skin. Because of King we are where we are today. Martin was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, by the name of Michael King Jr. Later, in 1931 after coming back home from a Baptist convention in Germany, Michael King, Senior; who was Martin’s father, adopted the name Martin Luther King in honor of …show more content…

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today, let freedom ring…And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, …show more content…

King was a man of peaceful intent, but he was a victim of violent intentions . He was jailed over twenty times, was once stabbed in the chest, his house was bombed twice, and he suffered personal, relentless attacks on himself and his family. Once more, on April 3, 1968 while in Memphis Martin was leading a protest march defending the rights of striking garbage workers, he delivered his famous “I’ve been to the Mountain Top” speech, it would be his last. He lost his life trying to make the lives of African Americans peaceful. King was shot in the spinal cord. About a year later they caught James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. He was sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison. Many believe that he did not act entirely alone. Martin died on April 4, 1968. Five days after his assassination fifty thousand people went to the Ebenezer Baptist Church to witness his funeral. They honored him and gave their respects. In 1983, Ronald Reagan declared the third Monday of January to be Martin Luther King Jr day to celebrate the man and what he stood for. In fact, many cities in the U.S. have a major street or school named after him as a testimony to

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