Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hi everyone, it’s me, Martin Luther King Jr. y’all wanna hear a funny story? My name is not really Martin Luther, it’s Michael. After my daddy, Michel King Sr. but he visited Germany ONE TIME and was so inspired by Martin Luther, he came home and changed his name. You know Martin Luther right? The 95 theses, religious reform, nail my memo to the door of the Church, German revolutionary, Martin Luther?

Anyway. I was born in Atlanta Ga in 1929 and I grew up to be a pastor, which was basically the family business so no shock there. But I also became one of the most influential people in the civil rights movement. Before I became the figure head of the civil rights movement I was just a regular kid. Went to school, skipped two grades, and attended Morehouse College at 15. After Morehouse I attended seminary school in Boston and that’s where I met my honey, Coretta Scott and I married her in ‘53. Then In 1955 Before the age of 25 I was already named pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. I went on to be the voice of some of the most prolific organizations and events surrounding civil rights at that time. The Montgomery bus boycott, The Southern Leadership Christian Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP), the March on Washington, ‘ Bloody Sunday’ March to Selma, and 1965 voting rights act. Some of my most famous works include Letters from Birmingham Jail, where I was literally in jail for 11 days for, get this, a traffic ticket! The ‘I have a dream’ speech that I gave during the March on Washington was also pretty game changing. I was also awarded the Nobel peace prize at 35. I am grateful that through my short life I was able to make such a huge difference. With the help of all my friends and fellow leaders in the civil rights movement, like Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, Ralph Abernathy, and countless others, we were able fight the injustice of segregation in a nonviolent way. “Hate can not drive out hate. Only love can do that.”

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