Martin+Luther+King

 **__Martin Luther King __**  **__By Chiara Erfurt-8B __** == ==

Earlier Life and Education:
==My name is Martin Luther King, JR I was born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia on the 15th of January 1929, and died on the 4th of April in1968 at the age of 39. This is my house and birthplace: ==

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== My Mother, Alberta Williams King got three children, Martin Luther King (me), Alfred Daniel Williams King and the only one still alive from my family, my sister, Christine King Farris. My father was first called Michael King, until my family traveled to Germany and changed his name to Martin Luther King, in honor to the German protestant leader Martin Luther, in 1934. I was a very good student I even skipped the ninth and eleventh grade of the [|Booker T. Washington High School]. I entered the Morehouse College without formally graduating from High school at the age of fifteen. ==

My later life:
== Later on, I got four Children, two boys and two girls with my wife Coretta Scott King. My kids are called [|Yolanda Denise-King], [|Martin Luther King III] , [|Dexter Scott King] , [|Bernice Albertine King]. I started to get up and do something against racial discrimination and segregation. In 1955 a black skin colored woman called, Rosa Parks refused to give away her bus seat to a white person. I was already in the committee from the African-American community, and I have been fighting for that girl and the rule that Black people have to give their bus seats away to white people. Too many people disagreed with me, so that my house got bombed and I was arrested. Well, after that, the United States District Court ruling in // [|Browder v. Gayle] // ended [|racial segregation] on all Montgomery public buses. I lived quite a dangerous life that is also why I got shot dead in 1968, while standing on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, Unites States. ==

Influence:
==The anger on Racial Discrimination and segregation was always there, my father schoolmate; Howard Thurman influenced me since I was a little kid. ==

· [|Abraham Lincoln]
== · [|Mahatma Gandhi] (I thought it was not fair to treat people bad only because they were born into a bad society, same as Gandhi) ==

What also inspired me to make this change is that those people treaten bad were actually "part of my family" they are also black, like me.
==The difference between racial discrimination and segregation is that racial segregation is to make two groups of two different kinds of humans, this can apply on all sort of things like schools, busses, washrooms, cinemas or even drinking from the same water fountain. ==

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==This happened in 28th of August 1963 and was the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. Millions of people came together to demonstrate with me. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">And my last speech from all of my speeches I have ever spoken (in 1968):media type="youtube" key="x1L8y-MX3pg?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> ===<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">I personally like my last speech the best, because I reached my goal already and I could say what was inside of me, and what I have changed, for the last time. ===

=My lasting Impact:= =Why I made such an lasting impact, is because I opened peoples eyes and showed them that the world would be better in peace. I even safed peoples life because they were threatened and slaved because of their skin color, and gave them a better oppertunity to live there dreams. It is lasting because people that have different skin colours, can now work together and be friends. I gave them back their lifes and the oppertunity what they want to do with it. You can exspecially see the lasting impact of my change in N.I.S.T every day, the people from places all over the world, callaborate with each other and respect each other.= = =

My Reasons:
==Caring: I am caring because I helped so many people to find their peace. I could not see all those people suffering only because they have a dark skin colour. I thought it was not fair to treat people like that, so I decided to help. I helped all those people, and more importantly, I cared!==

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==Communicating: I was communicating because I asked the people that suffered from racial discremination, what needs to be changed and what their ideas are, I helt speeches to let them know what I think. I did not just do what ever I thought that was right.==

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==<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Risk taking: I was risk taking because it was risking my life for my dream, to stop racial discremintaion. Back then a lot of people strongly disagreed with me, so I was in danger, they could kill me or harm me. That also really happened, like I already said, I got shot from someone that disagreed with me wanting to change the human rights. ==

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==<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">Inquirerer: I was definetly an inquirer because I made a huge change in p eoples life and took away the threats of racial discremination and segregation.== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">My Category:
==<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">I think I best fit in the range if politics because I didn’t invent anything, draw or was very creative, I made my change in terms of changing the human rights, which belongs to the political situation of the population in the world (in the countries my change had to be made). I was a civil-rights leader. ==

Awards:
==<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%;">On October the 14th 1964 I became the youngest to receive the Nobel peace prize, I was 35 years old. It was awarded to me for leading non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in the U.S. In 1977, I got the Presidential Medal of freedom (I was dead already) and in 2004 the Congressional gold medal (phostumous, I was also dead). It is also planned to make a Martin Luther King,JR National Memorial. ==

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