martin luther king
...The bus boycottWhen Martin came back to the south of America, he noticed that almost nothing had changed. The segregation and the oppression against the black people were still there. One day the black woman Rosa Park stepped on a crowed bus. She had been working all day and she was very tired so she took the only seat that was free. At the next bus stop two white men walked into the bus, and they said that Rosa Park should stand up and let them get her seat, because that was the law. When Rosa Park refused to leave her seat to them, they called the police and she got arrested. Martin did get involved in the incident, and he realized that something had to be done. He started "the Montgomery Improvement Association", which organized a major boycott against Montgomery's bus company. No black people would go by bus until the bus segregation laws had been removed. Over 50 000 black people in Montgomery started to walk to their jobs, and it became very expensive for the city. The 21 on February 1956 Martin and some associates in their organization were arrested for breaking the law, and a big trial was held. The court found Martin and his associates not guilty, because that it was the segregation laws that were illegal, because it fights against the constitution laws. The government taught that the bus boycott wouldn't be very long, but after 382 days the US government forced Montgomery's bus company to change their laws. The same boycott happened in Tallahassee, Florida, and after a six month long strike, Tallahassee's public busses were also desegregated. Now could black people take any seat they wanted, and not be forced to move if a white person wanted the seat. During the boycott, Martin received many threats, and even assassination attempts. Martin's house was bombed in a murder attempt, but no-one was hurt. The year after the boycott Martin, along with labor leaders, concerned ministers and activists started an association called "Southern Christian Leadership Conference" (SCLC). Martin Luther King was elected as the president of the association, and the association should approve the situation for the black people in the southern America. The same year Martin moved back to his home town Atlanta and started as a priest in his father's old church. The sit-insIn 1960 another big strike took place. Four black students walked into and sat down at a table reserved for white people only. They were thrown out, but the next day they did the same procedure. Those actions made many of the white people frustrated, but some of them realized that the segregation was wrong. The "sit-ins" spread across the America, and many black people followed their strike and walked into white restaurants and toilets. Marin, who participated in the sit-ins got arrested and sent to four months of hard labor. This year it was an election year, and the candidate John F. Kennedy saw his chance to gain votes. He commanded to release Martin, and acquit him all charges. This event made that many black people voted for Kennedy, and he won the election.I have a DreamIn 1963 Martin organized a peaceful protest march in Birmingham, but the march was stopped by white polices armed with dogs and water canons. The police took their water canons and fired at the peaceful demonstrators. TV- channels from all over America was sending live pictures when innocent demonstrators were flushed away. Many people became angry on what they saw on TV, and joined SCLC and other human right organizations. The US court founded the Birmingham police acting's illegal. Three months later Martin Luther King and his association organized a huge and very famous protest march in Washington DC, where over 250 000 people was marching for human rights and equal treatment. After meeting President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King was delivering his most famous speech "I Have a Dream", at the Lincoln Memorial. Here are some famous parts of the speech."I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."The listener was cheering, and the speech affected the whole country. Many TV-channels in the US was sending the speech live, and it was also broadcasted widely over the earth. The next year Martin Luther...