Martin Luther King Jr:
A Man of Faith
Martin Luther King Jr. was the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in his hometown of Atlanta. King had always wanted to obtain rights for his people and he began fighting for these rights in the South once he graduated from college. He became a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Using the principles of Ghandi and Christianity, King organized the bus boycotts which eventually led to the reproval of the laws segregating blacks and whites on buses. While the boycott was occurring in Alabama, King was threatened, his house bombed, arrested, and the subject of verbal abuse, but continued to ignore the public and fight for what he had faith in, civil rights for his people. In 1957 King was elected as the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was formed to provide leadership for the growing civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. led rallies to register black voters and he organized the march on Washington D.C. that involved 250,000 people. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the South. Four years later he was assassinated by someone who opposed his faith.
Martin Luther King Jr. is a man of Faith for many reasons. King put all of his faith into what he beleived was a good cause and felt was right. Martin Luther King spent most of his adulthood being persecuted by others who felt his mission wasn't just. King perservered and fought through these challenges in his life. As he kept demonstrating, boycotting, and protesting, his faith in civil rights grew and his movement strengthened. His family and the people around him helped him in his fight for equal rights. Martin Luther King Jr. is a man of faith not only because he set his eyes on justice and receiving rights, but because he did so peacefully and without fighting back for all of the hateful crimes that his enemies committed against him.
Sources
1.) Martin Luther King: The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 , The Nobel Foundation 1964.
2.) Martin Luther King Jr. , The Thomson Corporation 2006.
3.) The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction, Lisa Cozzens 1998.