“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” This quote, by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was said for the issue of Negro equality. In America during the 1960’s the issue of equality was beginning to be an explicit, controversial issue, especially in the south. Equality has influenced America to be a nation that has been able to overcome its racism against other cultures and social standings thanks to the opinions and efforts of Martin Luther King Jr., Abiko Kyutaro, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These people are prime influences that helped this nation evolve from a prejudice, unequal society to an understanding, unified nation.
In the town of Atlanta, Georgia, a man by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. was born and raised. He was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. King used the acts of nonviolence to get his point across to the nation and even the world. His practices were influenced by the Indian activist, Mohandas Gandhi. King was also a Baptist minister and started off as an activist early in his life and career. King also became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He received it due to his amazing efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination with nonviolence and civil disobedience. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was graciously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. Due to his successes as an activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986.
Martin Luther King Jr. supports African American equality and he has done so much to make a difference in the United States that he has become such an influence to people and the government to make African Americans equal and to end segregation and discrimination. His most...