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Martin Luther King

When you here the name Martin Luther King Jr. You might think of a man whose ahearo, joyful, helping and a man that will never give up. Well some people thought ofMartin as a saint, a trouble maker, and a Negroes. Slavery have been going on for many years. Slavery started in the 1808 in theUnited States. Much of the work now done by machines was done by slaves in theancient world. The early laws of Babylonia said that one man could own anther man,just as he owned a sheep or an ox. Even the Bible allowed slavery. In early times menoften sold themselves or members of their families to pay a debt or merely to get money. From the earliest times there were always protests against slavery. Some saw theevil effect upon the slave himself. A slave was a tool to many people, and a gang ofslaves was a machine with man for parts. In Rome and other parts of the world slaveswere of any race. In the United State many slaves were black. Slavery ended many yearsafter, but segregation started ( Slayton 212). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. change that all. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Alanta,Georgia. When he was only six years old his parents told him about slavery and thewhite people hating the blacks. Later when he was playing with his friend Bill a whiteboy, Bill mother told Martin that he was different and the boys could not play togetherany more. That is when he understood all the thing his parents told about white people (Haskins 120).Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott in 1953. Martin and Coretta hadfro children together. They had two sons Martin Luther the threed and Dexter Scott, andtwo daughters Yolanda Denise and Bernice Ablative( Comptons Chcylonedia 244). Martin Luther King Jr. Started his life as a paster in a local church. AfterPreachinf at the church for a little wile he when to help people with the sivril rightsmovenment in 1955. Martin helped people get whwt th...

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