A Top Best Guide About Alabama Civil Rights USA

On 15 Jan 1929, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA. A very interesting historical note has Dr. King's father which discover that the name of his son had mistakenly been recorded as Michael on his birth certificate. He found this out in 1934 when he was applying for a passport for his son.

Dr. King entered Morehouse College at fifteen and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. In 1951, after receiving a Bachelor's of Divinity from the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, he went on to study at Boston College. Dr. King received his Doctor of Philosophy in June 1955. Like his father as well as grandfather before him, Dr. King became a pastor. In 1914, his grandfather started his work at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The family of Dr. King was quite established in the area.

In Montgomery, Dr. King took benefit of the opportunity to work as the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1953 which is one of the top attractions in Alabama. At that time, he was twenty-four. It would provide him a day with success. When Rosa Parks was arrested for failing to give her seat up for a white man in December 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized with the involvement of Dr. King. The Bus Boycott put Dr. King on the national as well as international stage. It has lasted over three hundred eighty-one days. Dr. King was arrested during the boycott, but gradually, it ended with the Supreme Court banning segregation on all public transportation.

Dr. King embraced the non-violent civil disobedient philosophies which are employed by Mahatma Gandhi. He organized marches with the particular intent for empowering the African-American right to vote, labor, desegregation, and civil rights.

His most popular march was in 1963 when he went to Washington, D.C. and gave his "I Have A Dream," speech in front of the Lincoln memorial. The President Lyndon B. Johnson later passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The dream of Dr. King was now law.

In 1964, one of the most significant awards of Dr. King was receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. At that time, he was thirty-five years old and the youngest recipient of Nobel. Dr. King was also outspoken on his doubts regarding the Vietnam War.

In March 1968 while in Memphis, Tennessee for supporting the African-American sanitary workers on strike, he was killed as he was standing on the balcony of his hotel room. Posthumously, rumors surrounded him that he had plagiarized the thesis of his doctorate and that he was a womanizer. But what he accomplished that does not subtract - Alabama civil rights for all, particularly for African-Americans. Dr. King left behind a rich legacy of work and accomplishments. He was the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the recipient of twenty honorary degrees, and also even a Grammy award for Best Spoken Word Recording. Ronald Regan was signed the legislation in 1983 which creates a Federal holiday honoring Dr. King. In 2000, all fifty states officially observed Martin Luther King Day. It is currently held each year on the third Monday of January.

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