Martin Luther King Jr.

             was an American clergyman and a Nobel Prize winner. He was one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent promoter of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to isolation and racial discrimination in the 1950's and 1960's helped convince white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. Even after his assassination, he still is a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. This makes him a good citizen of our country because he demonstrates justice and fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and trustworthiness. .
             King was born in Atlanta Georgia to Martin Luther King Sr., a Baptist minister, and Albert Williams King. He attended local isolated public schools. Where he did extremely well. At the age of 15, King was accepted to Morehouse College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1948. Next he went to Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and gradated with honors. Then King went to Boston University where he got a degree in systematic theology. His public-speaking abilities developed slowly during his college years. All through his life, he was influenced by things that were related to Christian theology, the struggles of demoralized peoples. He also studied the teachings on nonviolent protest of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. King also listened to sermons that preach against American racism. By the end of his third year at Crozer, he was being praised for the powerful impression he made in public speeches and discussions. .
             The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the most legitimate thing King did. Montgomery's black community had been well-known for the grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. Many white bus drivers treated blacks unfairly. Usually cursing them and humiliating them by enforcing the city segregation laws, which forced blacks to sit in the back of the buses and give up their seats to white passengers on crowded buses.