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2. Evaluate how much they are truly ‘Radical’ 

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Martin Luther King Jr fought for the African-Americans during a time where they were being oppressed, racial segregation was a huge issue in America during the 50's-60's. In April of 1963 King lead the largest Civil Rights protest to have occurred, at which he was arrested for leading the demonstration in Alabama. He remained in prison for 11 days at Birmingham Jail, Alabama. During this time he wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail". While King was in prison, he was seen as an outsider as he was from Atlanta and was holding protests in Alabama, his letter addresses the fact that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”. Even while King was in prison he was still trying to change things on the outside, he was fighting for freedom in a place where he had none. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" became one of the key texts from the Civil Rights movement and paved the way for his speech at the “March on Washington” later that year. King was rallying against half the population, white Americans, who thought that segregation was appropriate. He worked hard to change the thoughts of these people by using excerpts from texts such as “The Bible” which the white Americans believed in, in order to have the rights of African- Americans recognised.

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Bbc.co.uk. (2018). BBC - Religions - Christianity: Martin Luther King Jr. [online] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/people/mlk.shtml [Accessed 27 Feb. 2018].

Rau, A. (2018). Bible References in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech - Bible Gateway Blog. [online] Bible Gateway Blog. Available at: https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2011/08/bible-references-in-the-i-have-a-dream-speech/ [Accessed 28 Feb. 2018].

Little Village. (2018). Laura Ingraham Frets: Liberals are trying to act like Martin Luther King was some liberal or something | Little Village. [online] Available at: http://littlevillagemag.com/wire-laura-ingraham-frets-liberals-are-trying-to-act-like-martin-luther-king-was-some-liberal-or-something/ [Accessed 1 Mar. 2018].

Nobelprize.org. (2018). Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography. [online] Available at: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html [Accessed 3 Mar. 2018].

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3. Compare and contrast their worldview with the worldview they had to fight against? 

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3. Compare and contrast their worldview with the worldview they had to fight against? 

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Martin Luther King Jr was a pastor of christianity. He took parts of the bible and weaved them into his speeches. King's worldview was to see equality around the world, meaning no racial segregation and for everyone to have equal rights, though this wasn't the case for the White Americans as they believed that the African Americans were not allowed any rights. They believed that segregation was okay, that it was acceptable to have "black" and "white" toilets and that both black and white people were not allowed to sit next to each-other. King knew that this was not acceptable and that there was no difference between them other than the pigment of their skin, so he stood up and tried to change the worldview that the White Americans had of them. Religion was a major part that influenced King especially Gandhi's policy of non violence. King used bits of the bible into his speeches so that even the religious people could relate to him in some way, and understand him more. This is one bible quote King used in his speech, Galatians 3:28 (NIV): “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” This quote from the bible is exactly what King was trying to get everyone to understand, that everyone is equal no matter the label or the pigment of your skin.

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4. What have you found most inspiring about the person you have studied and how have they challenged your own worldview? 

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Martin Luther King Jr has inspired me to look at how people are treated and how we are all equal and are no different from each other. King has inspired me to have more confidence and to stand up for what is right even if millions of others don't agree. Kings persivation to fight for equal rights and for African Americans to be de segregated is truely inspirational. King got arrested in April of 1963 for leading the worlds largest civil rights protest in Alabama, which shows how many followers he had and how many other people wanted to have equal rights. I feel as if this shows outstanding leadership and proves how inspirational he is not just to me but to the people who were with him on the day of that protest. King would have really inspired all them people to protest otherwise he wouldn't have gained such a following. Finally King is utterly inspirational to me as when he failed he tried again and again, he never gave up. I'll finish on when King traveled to India in 1956 he gained a victory with the bus boycott, basically he stopped the segregation of where black and white Americans were not allowed to sit next to each other. King inspired me to never give up and that you will always find success.

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1.	You need to give some background information on why this person is seen as a ‘Truly Radical Change Agent’ 

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1.	You need to give some background information on why this person is seen as a ‘Truly Radical Change Agent’ 

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Martin Luther King Jr was originally born Michael Luther King but then changed his name, he was born January 15th 1929 and was assassinated on April 4th 1968, he was supposed to perform a speech about the sanitation work strike on the following day. His family had a history of being Pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, with Martins Grandfather serving as pastor from 1914 to 1931, and his Father from 1960 till his death in 1984. At this time King was acting as co pastor, until in 1954 he became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King was seen as a truly radical agent because of who and what he stood up for, this is best shown in his famous speech "I Have a Dream" which was spoken in 1963 in-front of 250,000 people at the "March on Washington". King fought for the rights of black Americans for years, he was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) until his assasination in 1968. The SCLC is an African-American civil rights organisation whom the church and King played a big role in. In King's speech he talks about having a dream of both white and black Americans getting along here is one of his lines "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood". These are just some out of many reasons why Martin Luther King Jr is seen as truly radical.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Selected bibliography
Adams, Russell, Great Negroes Past and Present, pp. 106-107. Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing Co., 1963.

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, 1964.

I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King in Text and Pictures. New York, Time Life Books, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Measure of a Man. Philadelphia. The Christian Education Press, 1959. Two devotional addresses.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Strength to Love. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Sixteen sermons and one essay entitled "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence."

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York, Harper, 1958.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience. New York, Harper & Row, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Harper & Row, 1967.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Why We Can't Wait. New York, Harper & Row, 1963.

"Man of the Year", Time, 83 (January 3, 1964) 13-16; 25-27.

"Martin Luther King, Jr.", in Current Biography Yearbook 1965, ed. by Charles Moritz, pp. 220-223. New York, H.W. Wilson.

Reddick, Lawrence D., Crusader without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper, 1959.

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* Note from Nobelprize.org: This biography uses the word "Negro". Even though this word today is considered inappropriate, the biography is published in its original version in view of keeping it as a historical document.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor.