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Black History Month
February is the only month African Americans have to celebrate our culture. A big part of the African- American culture is the civil rights movement. One of the the leaders was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. If it wasn’t for people like Dr. King, America would still be a segregated society. The American civil rights movements started from the mid-1950s until his death in 1968.
He fought for equality, freedom of race, sex, and creed especially for the African Americans. He wanted people to be judged by their character and not by the color of their skin. Back then, everyone was separated based on their skin tone e.g. white bathroom, black bathroom, white school/black school.
Born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, he graduated high school at the early age of 15 and was admitted to Morehouse College. He studied medicine and law there. After graduating in 1948, he also went to Crozer Theological Seminary where he received a bachelors in divinity. He received awards such as the prestigious fellowship, elected president over a white senior class. Dr. King enrolled into graduate school at Boston University and received a doctorate in systematic theology. Along
his path of learning, he met his wife Coretta Scott and they wed in 1953.
During the time of transition, there were many struggles that blacks had to face to see freedom in the future that lies ahead. King has been in jail twenty times and assaulted four times. He practiced non-violence and met a leader name Malcolm X that was the opposite ( by any means necessary). Malcolm also believed in black identity, integrity and independence. They may have had opposing views but they both had one thing in common, they both wanted freedom and equality.