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Rachael Harper Mrs. DeAngelis 12 AC English 6 March 2016 Martin Luther King Jr Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr was sucidal as a child? Martin Luther King Jr has inspired me personally and many other people during the civil rights movements & a lot of events in the 60's. In my paper I plan to talk about the "I Have a Dream" speech, the March on Washington, and last but not least the Civil Rights movement as a whole. Martin Luther King Jr deserves the Nobel Prize because of the March on Washington, I Have a Dream, and Civil Rights. As a kid Martin Luther King Jr was known as M.L, young king and he was a gifted child because at the age of five he could sing hymms from memory and recite biblical passages. Martin Luther King Jr was praised …show more content…

Martin Luther King Jr did well in school and succeeded enough to even skip grades in elementary school and went to college as a junior in high school. Martin Luther King Jr graduated from Morehouse in 1948 with a degree in sociology, he attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He graduated top of his class with a B.A in divinity in 1951. He was influnced by the writing of the Social Gospeler Walter Rauschenbusch (Martin Luther King Jr).Martin Luther King Jr was a succesful student in college and always tried his hardest."He learned that a socially relevant faith must deal with the whole man--his body and soul, his material and spiritual well-being--and must work for the kingdom of God on earth as well as in heaven." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Martin Luther King Jr learned important things to use in everyday life. In high school king did so well that he got to skip the ninth and twelevth grades. When he was 15, he enters college at the Morehouse in Atlanta. He became a favorite of Benjamin E. Mays, the president of the college in which King attended and a well- known scholar of black religon. Under the president of the college, King decided he wanted to become a minister because he was inspired by May's influence. (Garrow, David J.) King was smart and got to skip the 9th and 12th grade and went to college at the ago of 15 and decided there he wanted to become a minister because he was influnced by the president at …show more content…

“King’s death is viewed by some historians to be the end of the civil rights era that began in middle of the 1950’s. Under King's leadership the civil rights movement won wide well-supported among whites, and law that had barred intergation in the South States was abolished.”(Garrow, David J.) "Between the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington, the Greensboro four sit-in may be been the most significant event of the Civil Rights Movement." (Aretha, David.

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