How did Martin Luther King Jr. became famous??

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Answer 1

The avowed marxist Michael King became famous by lying, cheating, and stealing. Not an original thought ever left this wife-beating communist's filthy mouth.

The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled "Life is What You Make It," according to the testimony of King's best friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams.

The first book that King wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom, - -was plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow.

And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King's widow Coretta), stated of King's writings at both Boston University and Crozer Theological Seminary: "Judged retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism.... Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his major field of graduate study, systematic theology."

King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God," written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of "The Finding of God."

Another of King's theses, "Contemporary Continental Theology," written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.

King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman," for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."

According to "The Martin Luther King Papers", in King's dissertation "only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on Tillich contain five or more words that were King's own...."!

Answer 2

There were other civil rights leaders before King ...among them, W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington but Martin Luther King came along at a time when television and radio as well as microphones and audio equipment made speakers more powerful and able to reach more people at one time....Martin Luther King was one out of a possible thousand concerned clergymen who used his pulpit as a forum to inspire and organize protest marches as well as boycotts...Rev C.L. Franklin and Adam Clayton Powell were also powerful figures..in fact, Martin was younger and inexperienced but he was young, eloquent, and handsome..this drew young followers especially the female ones..The NAACP has been around since the 1920's...one of their secretaries..Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White man and move to the back as was a practice of Segregation during this time...the early 1950's...she was forcibly removed by Police...it was captured by reporters and the pictures showed a lovely woman in glasses being put in handcuffs by two burly white Policemen....that sparked a boycott..the working class Black people refused to ride the bus...which hurt the profits of the white owned company...Martin Luther King was chosen as speaker but Ralph Abernathy along with others had a hand in organizing the event...Martin Luther King Jr was the face and voice of the Civil Rights movement druring the 50's and 60's....there had several other less successful attempts since the end of the Civil War....when Reconstruction ended...there were once Black congressmen to represent the ex slaves and leaders as great as Frederick Douglass....google Martin Luther King, Montgomery, Georgia, Letter from a Birmingham Jail....this is not just Black history..it's American history ....this man helped break down the walls of Segregation with the civil rights act of 1964...he is immortalized by the March on Washington, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln memorial.

Answer 3

Martin Luther King Jr thrust himself into the civil rights movement in 1955. Still in school and just recently awarded a ministry in the city of Montgomery, he became one of the prime movers in a campaign to boycott the Montgomery Transit System after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person.

The boycott continued for the better part of a year. And since the vast majority of the bus riders at the time were black, it was a terrible blow to the system. King was so closely associated with it that racist groups bombed his house.

Even after the boycott ended King was a well-known figure, watched by many. So it would be fair to say that the boycott was what first launched him into fame.

Answer 4

Because he was the first African American to become someone that wanted freedom for all. If it wasn't for Martin Luther King I'm not sure we as a nation would have too many civil rights. So I say to him thank you.

Answer 5

are you 3? He wanted freedom for all!