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One of the most important people that was black society is Martin Luther King, Jr. He recreated our nation to have blacks and whites together. He changed our country with his “I Have a Dream” speech. He also led the civil rights movement. He was such an important part in our life today. Things wouldn't be the same if he didn't speak his mind.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His roots were in an African-American Baptist church. He graduated at Morehouse College with a B.A. Degree in Sociology in 1948. That fall he enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was elected president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory address. He was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer in 1951. In September of 1951, Martin Luther King began his doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University. He also studied at Harvard University. He was awarded a Ph. D. degree from Boston, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology, on June 5, 1955. He married former Coretta Scott, the younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott of Marion, Alabama on June 18, 1953.

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech to the civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The civil rights movement began in 1954 with the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v Board of Education and ended with the call for “Black Power” in 1966. But before this a 16 year old high-school girl named Barbara Johns led her Virginia classmates out on the student strike to protest segregated schools. The Freedom Movement lived and fought in every state and every city of America, North and South, East and West. But there is some differences between the Southern and Northern wings of the Movement. In 1960, this movement first began to gain nation attention. African-Americans had been working to gain political and economic rights for nearly a century. They only made...