Martin Luther King Jr. On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

His father was a baptist minister and his mom is a schoolteacher. Martin Luther King Jr. grew up to be a very intelligent boy. In 1934, at the age of five, he was already in first grade. However, when his teacher learned of his age, he was expelled from school. This did not discourage the smart King as he went on to finish high school and in June of 1948, he graduated from college with a BA in Sociology. In May 1951, he graduated from Crozer with a Bachelor in Divinity. On June 18, 1953, Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott in Marlon, Alabama. On November 17, 1955 Yoland Denise, his first child was born. King was blessed with three more children: Martin Luther King III (1957), Dexter (1961) and Bernice Albertine (1963). His heroism began when Martin Luther King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott after a woman named Rosa Parks was denied a seat because of the color of her skin. For his troubles, his home was bombed and his family's life was put in great danger. However, this led to the end of racial segregation being allowed on all public transport. Some of his great contributions include:

He helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 which was an organization that worked for civil rights. He was the leader of the entire civil rights movement in the 1960s that called for working out conflicts with kindness and love as opposed to hate and violence. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for and achieves mandatory equal voting rights in America for blacks and whites. Martin Luther King Jr. led lunch counter sit-ins where he and other blacks and whites demanded equal treatment in restaurants for people of all races. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent peaceful demonstrations proved to the world that action without violence can be effective and successful. The standard has been set for all nations to treat everyone equally regardless of skin color because of the work of Martin Luther King Jr.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. I adore Martin Luther King because he fought against southern racism with all his might and effort. He believed in nonviolence and lead his campaign for the rights of people who were being oppressed because of their skin color. Before he was murdered for his attempts to bring about fairness, unity and the creation of a nation undivided, he was granted the Nobel Peace Prize. His most important contribution was being humble enough to offer up his life for people without a voice. He saw a social problem, developed a dream, and eventually by taking action he changed the United States as well as the world.