A Peaceful Protester: Martin Luther King Junior

Martin Luther King Junior is a leader who lead a civil rights movement in the 1950s. From my basic knowledge, he lead a huge civil rights movement in the 50s that went to 1960 before his death in 1968 on april fourth. It was against the segregation of the races of people especially the “black people” at the time.

During the 1950s and especially at the start of the civil rights movement, there was a separation of the people in their respective races. It had many rules that made the “black people” feel like a different class of people, ranging from buses, water fountains, and even different supermarkets at the time. Many people have tried and have gone up against the government and the segregation, in either violent or peaceful protests. One of the people that was peacefully protesting was the Martin Luther King Junior.

Martin, was against the segregation of his people just because of their color, and was peacefully protesting in a movement known as the civil rights movement. Many people felt, including him, angry due to the rules of man that is of a different race. He was motivated by the thought of white and black people living the same, “It was in this environment, seeing the possibility of an America where black and white citizens were truly equal.” He was motivated, and his motivation led him to lead peaceful protests in the US in the 1950s.

His actions with the support of many other people have led the civil rights movement very far with, especially during the 1960s. His motivational speeches and the quotes that came from those speeches moved many, many people including some of the white men. “darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” These quotes along with the speeches were very important, as these paved the way for a future where many people of many races can live under the same rules and the same way as others, which came in the late 1960 and in the early 1970s after Martin Luther King’s death in 1968.

In the end, the people by peacefully protesting and motivating many people to protest along with them, they received their rights as normal people. And the actions these people and Martin Luther King did went down in history.