I am doin a reasearch on martin luther king. Do you know why Martin Luther King Jr. was so important?

Question

and also i need reasons why he was so important too

Answer 1

Martin Luther King is probably the most famous person associated with the civil rights movement. King was active from the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 to 1956 until his murder in April 1968. To many Martin Luther King epitomized what the civil rights campaign was all about and he brought massive international cover to the movement.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/martin_luther_king.htm

My choice of civil rights movement person was Malcolm X. He made a great contribution. He began as a man with a vengeance for civil rights with violence..........He became great when he changed his outlook for non violence
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/home.php

Answer 2

ahhhh essays...

ok so your paper should have a main idea thats supported throughout it. Then 3 things that support your idea

1. First paragraph: opening Talk about some other civil rights leaders or Marty's life and explain the things you will be talking about. The last sentence of this paragraph shold be your "thesis statement" or what the entire paper is about. So something like Martin Luther King Jr was a very diverse man who was always trying to spreas ideas of civil rights.

2. 1st idea talk about how MLK was a prominent civil rights leader (how many paragraphs it should be depends on your paper length. 1 paragraph for each will probably get you 2-3 pages double spaced)

3. 2nd idea you can say how he was a political activist

4. 3rd idea MLK was a baptist minister and you can say how he was strongly religious and brought God into his preachings about civil rights

5. closing. just restate everything you said in the first paragraph with some different language.



hope this helps. by the way you can use this format for pretty much all of your papers. think of a main idea, then about 3 supporting facts, then write things that branch off of each of them in your paragraphs, and before you know it will all fit together into a pretty sweet paper.

Answer 3

I'm sorry but you're being so lazy. If you just type Martin Luther King's name you will get all the information. It's not he was not someone popular. Come on

Answer 4

'resreach' is the key word. YOU need to find most of this info out, plus how do you not know about him?
he did the 'i have a dream' speech about getting equal rights for african americans. just sreach him or i have a dream speech on the internet.

Answer 5

Dr. King is most famous as a leader of the "Civil Rights" movement that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation and discrimination in public services, facilities and institutions. As a minister, he had a gift for invoking divine Biblical authority in his words while speaking about political and social reality. Thus, he used his great influence as a speaker and leader to organize unified moral support among church members and the greater public in order to push for political change in law and government.

In general, he put a dignified face on the issue of political and racial oppression of African Americans by focusing on it as a "civil rights" issue and movement, which addresses and benefits everyone, not just African Americans.

This approach brought together positive and effective unity among supporters across racial and religious lines.

Without this kind of unifying leadership, issues of race, religion, politics or economics become divided and weakened.

Ironically, while other groups have benefited from civil rights and equal protections from discrimination, African Americans still suffer political and economic hardship and oppression. So the struggle continues, but we have his legacy and leadership to look to as a role model for how to achieve the next stages of progress.

My favorite quotation from MLK, which I recommend that you try to incorporate, is posted at http://www.centerhealingracism.org

"Men hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they are often separated from each other." -- Dr. Martin Luther King

Again, this quotation shows how he put racial division in perspective with human rights and issues, where these are universal conditions to everyone. So instead of dividing people more over racial differences, he addressed the conflicts in a way that brought people together for a common cause, and not to benefit or favor one group over another.

This key is very important, and is missing from activist movements today which are splintered over their individual issues and campaigns instead of unifying with others.

His most famous and most quoted words are from his "I Have a Dream" speech, expressing his vision of unity and freedom that transcended religion and politics, http://boes.org/docs2/mking01.html

and his letter from a Birmingham jail.

Note from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
According to Wikipedia, he won a Nobel Prize in 1964 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1977.

His influences include Gandhi, who used "nonviolent resistance" and "civil disobedience" to incite powerful social change to overcome mass oppression, and his Christian faith in human equality as created by God, where you can see the Biblical influence (There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28) on his vision ("...we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands..").

Answer 6

Cannot do you work for you. Best I can offer is that he had a dream, a dream that was realized.

Answer 7

Because someone shot him.