INSTITUTO CATOLICO TECNICO VOCACIONAL

JESUS OBRERO

NAME: Anderson Vladimir Cordova

TEACHER: Giovanni Arturo Chavez

MATTER: English

SECTION: “C” Primer Año Mecánica

YEAR: 2022
#: 05
 Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr Atlanta, 1929 - Memphis, 1968 American Baptist

pastor, civil rights advocate. The long struggle of black Americans to achieve
the fullness of rights knew since 1955 an acceleration in whose leadership
the young pastor Martin Luther King was going to stand out very soon His
nonviolent action, inspired by Gandhi's example, mobilized a growing portion
of the African-American community until culminating in the summer of 1963
in the historic march on Washington, which brought together 250,000
protesters. There, at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King
delivered the most famous and moving of his splendid speeches, known for
the formula that headed the vision of a just world: I have a dream I have a
dream The son of a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King studied theology at
Boston University. From a young age he became aware of the situation of
social and racial segregation in which the blacks of his country lived, and
especially those of the southern states. Becoming a Baptist pastor, in 1954 he
took over a church in the city of Montgomery, Alabama.
Very soon he showed his charisma and his firm determination to fight for the
defense of civil rights with peaceful methods, inspired by the figure of
Mahatma Gandhi and the theory of civil disobedience of Henry David
Thoreau, the same sources that in those same years inspired the struggle of
Nelson Mandela against apartheid in South Africa In August 1955 a humble
black dressmaker, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for sitting in the white
section of a bus; King led a massive boycott of more than a year against
segregation on municipal buses.
In 1960 he took advantage of a spontaneous sit-in of black students in
Birmingham, Alabama, to launch a nationwide campaign. On this occasion,
Martin Luther King was imprisoned and later released through the
intercession of John Fitgerald Kennedy, then a candidate for the presidency
of the United States, but he achieved equal access to libraries, canteens and
parking lots for blacks.
In the summer of 1963, his struggle reached one of its climactic moments
when he led a gigantic march on Washington in which some 250,000 people
participated.