M. L. King

I think a heroe is an ordinary person who has done something to change the way people think about the world or is not afraid to be punisched for their beliefs. It is someone who has ideas that could make life better for another human in any way and has the courage to act on these ideas. Heroe should care about others and shouldn’t discriminate against anybody because of differences in beliefs, race or religion.

Martin Luther King Jr. helped black and other races over come segregation in a peaceful way. King is responsible for most of the credit of the civil-rights act.

In 1955 he headed the Montgomery Bus Boycott in which African Americans stopped using buses because the white people would not allow them to sit in the front of the bus. The boycott lasted 382 days,

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is a heroe to me because few of my friends are African American. He went through this and more, reaping the rewards and accepting the consequences. James Earl Ray was sent to jail for ninety-nine years and even though investigations suspect he was not alone, no one else has been identified.

In the spring of 1968 he was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

Between 1957 and 1968, he travelled over six million miles and spoke over 2500 times. The police beat and sprayed pepper spray at the marchers, on a day called Blood Sunday because of the result of continuing the march. The marched stopped and received a federal court because of the police interfering with the march. If he hadn’t done that then I wouldn’t have met them.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King Jr. it was non-violence and peaceful protest.

Dr King died but his beliefs and ideas are still actual.

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