Martin Luther King JR

Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther king was an outstanding black American leader in the United States. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15,1929. His father was a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. His mother was a schoolteacher. Martin Luther King confronted racism at a young age. When he was six years old, he had two white friends and his friend's parents broke them up from being racism. At the age of eleven, …

…king to Memphis, Tennessee to support striking black garbage workers in spring 1968. When he did that, a sniper assassinated him there on April 4. When the news got out, everybody was angry. Big riots in more than 100 cities in the United States. In 1969, the sniper pleaded guilty and 99 years of prison. There was a big funeral after his death. On his gravestone, they wrote, “ I am free at last, thank God I am free at last!”