Youth recognize civil rights leader's influence (w/video)  "He
is important because he helped with black people because people
thought bad things about them. Like Rosa Parks, she was the same
race as him, and she got thrown in jail just because she was his
race, and she didn't want to move seats."  Elijah Perry  "Martin
Luther King Jr. was important because he believed in civil
rights. He believed just because people were a different color,
that didn't mean they didn't have the same rights. Like they
couldn't go to the same side of the bus, and they couldn't go to
good educational schools, which he thought was not right, so he
went against that, and lots of people who were like him agreed."
Kanella Cohen  "He is important because white people thought
that any other color would mean that they didn't get the same
rights as them. So they would have to sit in a different area in
a restaurant and different areas in a bus just because of their
race. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to stop that because he
thought it