What did Martin Luther King Jr actually do!!!?!?!!!?

Question

what made him famous and remembered, i asked this to a couple people and they said that he talked a lot and for some reason everyone loved him, but idk cuz the ppl who i asked were skinheads.........

but at the same time, when i see videos of him being remembered or whatever, hes just basically making speeches bu not actually doing something............ but i really dont know, i never learned about blacks in school

Answer 1

Great men can be great by what they say and preach as well as by what they do. In fact when ever we read about the actions of the politicians it really means what they got others to do, not themselves directly.

Martin Luther King was a leader for civil rights of the black people in the US. He achieved this by speech making and if you read some of his words you might appreciate how great such a speech can be.

No everybody can make good speeches. There is a story about a penitent person praying very emotionally and sincerely to God and blaming him for the disasters that happened to his family over the past few years. His neighbour in the prayer community then asked him: "Why did you let Him off so easily?, with a better list of complaints you might have managed to bring about world peace!

Answer 2

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American reverend, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement.

He became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–6) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had re-focused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective.

He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986.

Answer 3

He advocated non violence civil disobedience as a way  to rid the south of segregation laws and by inspirational speeches convince large numbers of people to join his movement. In doing so  he is credited with changing the way most Americans thought about race.

http://www.ags.uci.edu/~skaufman/teachin...

Answer 4

He was a champion for civil rights.  He was also a Republican which a lot of people seem to not accept as fact.