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MLK Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr.) was a change maker for civil rights for people of color. He believed in peace and tried his best to not let his supporters or enemies get harmed even if people were harming him. Dr. King promoted equality and nonviolence.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s statue at the Washington Monument in remembrance of his work and himself.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born
January 15th, 1929

He has been arrested 29 times

He gave 450 speeches

Not only did King Jr. attempt suicide at the age of 12, but he also got a suicide letter from the FBI after his famous "I have a dream" speech in 1963.

In total, King spent over a year in jail over all of his arrests. For many of those arrests, he had to bail out with over $12,000 in total.

Dr. King when he was arrested in April 1963 and was taken into custody in Birmingham, Alabama.

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In MLK Jr.'s life he had been through many difficulties.
Born on January 15th, 1929 MLK Jr. grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His father and late grandfather were both pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King Jr. had two siblings, his older sister Willie Christine, and his younger brother Alfred Daniel Williams King. The household was a loving place with King Sr. being a bit more strict than Mrs.Williams King.

The King parents tried to protect their children best they could from racism, unfortunately, they still had to experience that like many other people of color.
When King Jr. was 12 years old, his grandmother had passed away from a heart attack, the situation was traumatic for King not only because of the passing but he had witnessed his parents get paraded. Because of those incidents, King Jr. had attempted suicide by jumping off of the second-story window from his house.

At age 15, MLK Jr. had skipped 9th and 11th grade and went to Morehouse College. Then in 1948 King graduated and went to the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary college. At Morehouse, King was able to find his spirit again in Christianity and through it found hope for social change in it.
At the last college in Boston (New England Conservatory) King met Coretta Scott. Later in 1953 they got married and had their four children, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, Yolanda, and Bernice.

On March 28th, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. lead a march with about 6,000 people for the striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. The march ended up being violent which included looting. Dr. King was rushed from the scene. On April 4th King returns to Memphis hoping to lead a peaceful march, he gave his final speech "I've been to the mountain top."
Then later the next day (April 4th) King stood on the balcony in the Lorraine Motel. King was shot and killed.

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MLK Jr.'s work and the sacrifices that came along with it 

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MLK Jr.'s work and the sacrifices that came along with it 

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s first movement that he lead was the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man. This boycott gave King national recognition and he became a target for white terrorists.
On January 30, 1956, a white supremacist drove by King's house and threw a bomb onto his porch, thankfully Coretta Scott and their 7 month-old child were not harmed. The news spread quickly about the bombing and a group of his supporters gathered at King's house, they were furious. Although King told the crowd, “I want you to love our enemies, be good to them, love them, and let them know you love them.”

Despite MLK's work, over his entire life he was harassed, touched, arrested, served lots of time in jail, got threats, and later assassinated. He had to work hard for where our society is now which even is not complete.

Dr. King Jr. at the Washington Monument as he gave his "I have a dream" speech.

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The changes that MLK Jr. has made are many, yet not all of them have been continued.

On October 16, 1961,

President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. met and discussed a second Emancipation Proclamation to eliminate racial segregation.

MLK Jr. was massively responsible for the passing of the Civil Rights act in 1964 and the voting rights act in 1965.

King was the 1st President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from January 10, 1957, to April 4, 1968

So overall racism still exists, although it is currently illegal compared to the 1950s as an example. White power is still in this country whether people acknowledge it or not.

“Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”