The civil rights struggle in America has been an ongoing process for many years and continues to go on today. One such man who embodied the civil rights movement was Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was a man of vision, a man who saw America for what it truly was. King used his vision as his inspirat...

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He did very well at the segregated public schools he attended. At age 15 King Jr. entered Morehouse College. In 1948 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology. King Jr. then went on to the Crozer Theological Seminary; there he gradua...

It had been almost one hundred years since the emancipation proclamation but still blacks were not truly free. Civil rights although were laws in the north, were not enforced to any extent of the law. From 1954 to 1972 the civil rights movement took on many changes. From leaders to tactics, the m...