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Martin Luther King, Jr., original name Michael King, Jr., (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee), Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern Black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers. His parents were college-educated, and King’s father had succeeded his father-in-law as pastor. Young Martin received a solid education and grew up in a loving extended family. In 1944, at age 15, King entered Morehouse College in Atlanta under a special wartime program intended to boost enrollment by admitting promising high-school students like King.He graduated from Morehouse in 1948.

King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he became acquainted with Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence as well as with the thought of contemporary Protestant theologians.

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A deeper look into the life of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his death

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. Is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.
The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott.

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"I have a dream" was a famous public speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. during the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" on the 28th of August, 1963.
In the speech, Martin called for equal economic and social rights to be granted to all African Americans and other coloured people as well as an end to racial discrimination within the United States.
Many modern scholars consider Martin's speech to be the best use of the English language in the 20th century and the most iconic speech in American history.

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opposition against martin luther king jr

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opposition against martin luther king jr

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he faced many obstacles while on his mission for equality.
for example: He was arrested over twenty times for protesting, He was the object of several violent attacks, both to his person and his property, He received threatening phone calls, his home was bombed and set afire and he was even stabbed.
we also kwon that Malcolm X had abrasive criticism of King and his advocacy of racial separatism.
also during the 1960s, King was a very divisive figure. The last gallup pool to ask about his popularity during his lifetime, taken in 1966, found his unfavorable rating was 63%. This included 39% of Americans who gave him a -5 rating, on a scale with -5 being least favorable and +5 being most favorable. King’s highly negative rating came when he had turned his attention from Southern to northern cities.

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In order to gain more publicity Martin Luther King had to understand the value of the media. With the new invention of the Television, people now had access to information and saw the violence of segregation. But not only that he almost forced himself into newspapers as northern journalists covered the injustices coloured people encountered while protesting. With the power of the press he became a world wide known speaker and phenomenon.

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Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement adopted tactics of non-violence, peaceful protest, civil disobedience, speeches and marches.
King thought that civil disobedience was necessary to increase civil rights and believed that if a law was wrong then the citizens of the country had the right to protest against that law.
He was not worried about the high number of arrests that might occur. Instead, he saw it as an opportunity to gain even more publicity.

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highlighted the role of church ministers. huge influence and access to people. People who moved to city gathered at churches. He used this platform to boost his popularity and spread his message of non-violent protest,

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At 7:05 P.m. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, he was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
King arrived at Tennessee for a march the following Monday on behalf of strike Memphis sanitation workers.
An assassin fired a single shot that caused severe wounds to the lower right side of his face.
President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a national day of mourning to be observed on 7 April.
Morehouse College President Benjamin Mays delivered the speech, predicting that King “would probably say that, if death had to come, I am sure there was no greater cause to die for than fighting to get a just wage for garbage collectors” (Mays, 9 April 1968).