Black history- Part 2

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King jr was born 1929. He was a civil rights leader and a role model. He secures the progress on civil rights in the US and is a human rights icon.
In his campaign he wanted people to protest in a non violent way. The African Americans were separated from the whites in America. They were not allowed to go to the same public school, drink of the same fountains and even sit in the same places on the bus.
King a pastor, and was given the gift of speech. When he talked people really listened. His most famous speech is “I have a dream”.
The speech was about how we hope all people, no matter what color or race or religion could live together in harmony and as equals. The speech was on August 28th, 1963 on the stepts of the Lincold Memorial. It was a defining moment of the American Civil rights Movement. When he spoke, over 250,000 civil rights supporters listen
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's
lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and
nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black
boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys
and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
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1964 Martin Luther King was the youngest man ever to receive the Nobel’s peace prize. On the clip I have put a link too, you can see King receiving the prize.

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/434882