MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The life story of the civil rights patriot Martin Luther King Jr. started with his birth in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr. was a Baptist minister and preached for civil rights. When young Martin grew up, he knew he wanted to follow in his father footsteps and become a minister. In 1955, King was asked to lead a bus boycott in Montgomery. It started when Rosa Parks was …showed first 75 words of 487 total…

…showed last 75 words of 487 total…of people, and hate crimes as well as white organizations still exist. If racism itself is ever eliminated, it will only fade away with time, being replaced by another prejudice belittling a part of society. Prejudices have proven to be unnaviodable in human society and will continue until the end of time. Martin Luther King Jr. played a major part in the problem of racism, and will have an impact on what is to come.