Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I believe that Mr. King was probably one of the most inspirational people I have ever read about or heard of. He believed in equality and fighting in what he believed for without being violent. I think that more people need to be educated on on Dr. King did and his life story itself. Everyone for the most part knows Martin Luther King for one of three things: The Civil Rights Movement, The"I Have a Dream" Speech, or his "Letters from Birmingham Jail". Most people don't know that his grandfather was the pastor and started up the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Alanta, Georgia. Him and his father also served as pastors at the church. Dr. King not only was a very educated man (which at the time this was nearly unheard of because of his race) but he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. He had studied the Ghandi philosophy in college and he used that approach in his campaign for civil rights. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When told of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the help of the civil rights movement.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 believe this country would be a much better different place if he hadn't been killed over something so meaningless.