The Man Who Changed
the World
Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on
January 15, 1929 in Atlanta,
Georgia. He didn’t enjoy the name he was given and so
his father changed it from Michael King, to Martin Luther King Jr. Martin grew
up playing with two white boys until one day the white boys told Martin and his
brother, Alfred Daniel (A.D.) that they could no longer play together because
Martin and A.D. were black. That’s when Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to make a
difference in the world! He started college at the age of fifteen and went to
college at Morehouse
University. MLK was a man
of god. He was a minister at Ebenezer Baptist
Church in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1953, MLK married Coretta Scott. Martin Luther became pastor of his own church
in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. In
1955, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided that he wanted to make blacks and
whites equal with each other, one year later, he was arrested, his home was
bombed, and he was subjected to personal
abuse. But at the same time, he emerged as a Negro leader of the first
rank. King traveled over six million
miles and spoke twenty-five hundred times, wherever there was injustice. MLK
confronted John F. Kennedy with his “I have a Dream” speech, and the president
agreed to let him say what needed to be said, and now the speech has been
heard. On the evening of April 4, 1968, MLK was standing on his balcony, where
he was assassinated.