Martin Luther King Jr, was born on january 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. He was a baptist minister and civil rights activist, he also had a unstable influence on the race relations in the united states, in the mid 1950’s. Martin was in charge of the southern christian leadership conference. King played a critical role in the ending the legal segregation of african americans citizens in the United states. Martin was the middle child. He took over a little “Ebenezer Baptist” church that had 13 members and he made it into a strong congregation.
Him and his family were living in Montgomery for less than a year when extremely segregated city became the epicenter of the improvement struggle for the civil rights in America. On december 1st, 1955 Rosa parks secretary of the local national association. One day she was not willing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, then she was arrested for not giving up …show more content…
He also was an author of some books and articles during this time. In 1960 him and his family, they moved to Atlanta, his native city where he met his father as co-pastor of the “Ebenezer Baptist Church”. Their thought of nonviolence was put to a specifically severe test during the “Birmingham campaign of 1963”, in which protestors used boycott, peaceful protest and peace marches to protest segregation. He was arrested for his participation on april 12th, he wrote the civil rights manifesto known as the “Letter from Birmingham