Sunmbo ajaba biography of martin luther king jr summary

Martin Luther King, Jr. The famed civil rights leader was also a preacher, philosopher, and orator. King never wrote an official autobiography. Instead, the manager of his papers, Clayborne Carson, reconstructed an autobiography from King's autobiographical sketches, notes and speeches. King was born in the late s to a long line of ministers.

He has a complex

Much of his early life was spent in church and experiencing the injustices of segregation in the Atlanta, George of the s and early s. He lived well for a black person at the time and often thought deeply about religious issues, struggling with his Christian faith on many occasions. In college, King discovered social and political philosophy, along with theological liberalism.

King came to realize that his commitment to follow Jesus Christ required fighting for social justice, particularly for racial equality. He was particularly influenced by the works of Mahatma Ghandi, and became an ardent adherent of Ghandi's philosophy of nonviolence resistance to injustice. They will eventually have four children together; she is his constant ally in the struggle for racial equality and social justice.

After Rosa Parks's arrest, the Montgomery movement begins in earnest and leads to an expanding civil rights movement all over the south. The Montgomery movement leads to the desegregation of busing all over the South after King and his allies run a successful, extended bus boycott. King's fame increases and he travels the world. The agitation of the civil rights movement leads to the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act which end legal discrimination against blacks and secure black voting rights respectively.

King's challenges never end, however. Often the strategy of nonviolence is successful, but as time wears on and young blacks became more confident in their ability to bring about social change, many want to fight racist whites with violence.