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Martin Luther king One of the most famous black American in the history of the United States. The men who devoted his life to the freedom of black American and to abolish segregation. It was a hot day in April 1968.The street of Atlanta, Georgia, were packed with people, and they were restless, angry, and very, very sad. They had gathered, in the city of martin Luther king birth, for his funeral. The question is: why was he killed? What did he do? What was his dream? Martin Luther king was born in 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the heart of America’s deep south. His father, reverend King, was pastor, or minister, at Ebenezer Baptist church. Martin had an older sister, Willie Christine, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel. Martin enjoyed reading, and listening to his father preaches. He soon realized that words had a power could move people to anger or to tears, to action or concern. But words could hurt and humiliate too. One day, in store, he accidentally stepped on a white woman’s foot. She slapped his face and called him “little Niger.” In the summer of 1944, when he was fifteen, martin went to work on a farm in the north, where there were no segregation laws. He felt a great sense of freedom. Martin went to Morehouse College, in Atlanta, to study sociology. He intended to become a doctor or a lawyer. In 1947, he becomes his father’s assistant pastor. King continued his studies in Pennsylvania and at Boston University. King was a brilliant student. In 1953 he married Correta Scott. On December 1, 1955, Rosa parks, a middle-aged seamstress who worked for the Montgomery N.A.A.C.P., tired after a long working day, refused to give up her seat to the white man who was demanding it. No, she would //not// budge. The police were called, Mrs. Parks was arrested and the battle against the bus laws began. The black people of Montgomery decided it was time to make their feelings clear. They decided to boycott the buses. King was elected president of a new black pressure group. The success of the Montgomery bus boycott encouraged black people in many cities. In 1963,the civil rights campaign becomes international. Martin Luther king was arrested and put in cell. This time he accepted prison as a “badge of honor”. In his cell king wrote his famous letter from Birmingham jail. After a week, king was released. If somebody wants to say something about king is a man who fighting for his dream, for equal rights, fighting for black and white can be together. Martin Luther king was talking about his dream and he said: //“ I have a dream that my four children will one day be judged, not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one little black boy and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.// ” In April 1968, king went to Memphis, Tennessee, to support the black workers in an industrial dispute. An 3rd April, martin said his last famous speech: //”I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but we as a people will get to the Promised Land.”// Within twenty-four hours martin Luther king was dead shot down by James earl ray. His life gave great strength and purpose to black Americans. In that is the dream of Martin Luther king.