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//The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.// Martin Luther King, Jr. lived from January 15, 1929 to April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King Jr was a major leader of the civil rights movement. He changed the way the world lives today. He was a Baptist Minister and a civil rights activist early on in his career. He gave his first sermon at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in May of 1954. He married Coretta Scott in 1953 in Alabama. He named a chapter after her in his autobiography. She was there whenever he needed her, and he cherished her for this. They had four children together. He was the leader of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963. He was shot in the jaw on the second floor of a hotel in Memphis in 1968. || //"Of course I was religious. I grew up in the church. My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher. So I didn't have much choice."// Religion was and had been a major part of the Kings. Religion was in the family. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was born, his occupation of a preacher was decided. He had no choice. This shows how good Marting Luther King Jr was raised and how good of a person he was. || When King, Jr. was just a young boy, his parents told him that he should try not to hate the white race. They told him it was his responsibly as a Christian to love them. He asked himself this question over and over again for a copious number of years. As a child, King, Jr. grew up with a white boy who he played with quite a bit. When he was only six, the father of his white friend told his son that he could not play with King, Jr. anymore. King, Jr. knew it was because of his race. He was already forming strong opinions when he was only 6 years old. || media type="youtube" key="9oXtd_XRb3U" height="258" width="358" ([]) || Martin Luther King, Jr. had the same opinion as many other black Americans.This stereotype caused Martin Luther King Jr to change who he was as a person for a period of time, and he realized this. During this time, he always had the stereotypes in the back of his mind. He was very conscious not to fit any of them, and when he did, he knew it right away. He was embarrassed. ||  ||   ||   || The blacks depended on the whites to conquer nonviolence and interracial amity. If the blacks could have done it on their own, they would have done it very quickly and much earlier. The blacks formed a team among themselves in many different situations, like in the Montgomery and sit-in movements. || || The events leading up to this movement have left all the black Americans of this time frame with an enormous task. How they take on this task will be viewed all over the world. The world will view moral, cultural, and political health. The white Americans are also viewed by the world on how they act in this movement. || //"While the nature of this account causes me to make frequent use of the pronoun "I," in every important part of the story it should be "we." This is not a drama with only one actor. More precisely it is the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth."// Jr. speaks about the account of the Montgomery movement. Although Jr. did more work in the civil right's movement than anybody else, he still does not take full credit. He is still right though, for he had many supporters along the way. It would not have been possible with out all the blacks working as one.Once involved in the movement, the Negroes realized that they had rights like everybody else did. Their love for each other taught them the value that each black man had. Without each one involved, it would have never been possible ||
 * //"How could I love a race of people who hated me?"//
 * [[image:http://www.achievement.org/achievers/kin1/large/kin1-015.jpg caption="(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta)"]] || //"I was well aware of the typical white sterotype of the Negro, that he is always late, that he's loud and always laughing, that he's dirty and messy, and for a while i was terribly conscious of trying to avoid identification with it."//
 * //"Negroes can still march down the path of nonviolence and interracial amity if white America will meet them with honest determination to rid society of its inequality and inhumanity."//
 * //"History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably important destiny- to complete a process of democratization which our nation has too long developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect and emulation. How we deal with this crucial situation will determine our moral health as individuals, our cultural health as a region, our political health as a nation, and our prestige as a leader of the free world."//
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Luther King Jr., Martin. //The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.// New York: Warner Books Inc, 1998. Print.

"Martin Luther King, Jr. giving speech." 20 Nov. Web. <[|http://www.writespirit.net/inspirational_talks/] [|political/martin_luther_king_talks/martin-luther-king2.jpg]> ||  ||
 * While doing this project, I have learned a lot of information about American history. I have learned how one person, like Martin Luther King, Jr., can make a huge impact on the history of America because he was not thinking about the past or even the present. He, along with many others, was worried about the future of America, and if it was not for him, we would all live our lives differently today. The years from after his death to now would be a completely different series of events. ||  ||