What did Martin Luther King Jr do?



Martin Luther King Jr. was involved with many of the most well-known activities of the civil rights movement. In 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. was selected by the NAACP to head a city-wide boycott against the Montgomery bus system after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. After 1955, King was involved with a variety of protests and worked to eradicate injustice against African-Americans. He promoted non-violent demonstrations to raise awareness of African-American rights and organized peaceful marches as well as sit-ins. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most famous speech to a crowd of more than 200,000 demonstrators in Birmingham, Ala. King's "I Have a Dream" speech shared his hopes for a non-segregated future where white and black children would be treated with the same respect and given the same rights. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a sniper on a balcony outside of a motel, but his legacy of non-violent civil disobedience lived on long after his death.

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