1. Martin Luther King
Michael Luther King was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to Alberta Williams King a schoolteacher and Pastor Martin Luther King. He was later renamed to Martin Luther King, Jr. ... King met his wife Coretta Scott King at Boston University they married in 1953, shortly after they moved to his wife hometown Montgomery, Alabama where they had four children Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter and Bernice. ... Martin Luther King Jr. is considered a great legend then and now for the civil rights movement. ...
Martin Luther King was a civil rights activist; he had led the Montgomery bus boycott, which was started by Rosa parks. As a result of Rosa parks not giving up her seat on the bus for a white man, Martin Luther King was elected to lead the Montgomery bus boycott by fellow members of the NAACP. ... Martin Luther king wasn't only an important person in getting the civil rights acts passed but he was also important in getting the busses desegregate. ... The achievement of the civil right is related to the success of the March on Washington, whereby Martin Luther King gave his speech. ...
Racial and social justice was the root factor to start the American Civil Rights Movement, due to years of racial segregation such as the Jim Crow Segregation. The civil rights movement was like a war conducted on many fronts. Slavery was abolished however the rights of these 'slaves' were not...