Martin Luther King And The Albany Movement

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Albany Movement- In 1961 Martin Luther King's third son Dexter Scott is born in the month of January. In December, Martin Luther King is invited to the Albany Movement in Albany from Dr, W. G. Anderson, the leader of the Albany movement. After king arrives to Albany, he joins the many members of the Albany Movement in protesting, and is soon arrested for protesting along with hundreds of other protesters. The city later banned Martin and his followers for protesting to make them stop. While King was in Albany, he learned about the Freedom Rides. the Freedom Rides were a campaign of bus trips from north to south. Some people slashed the riders tires, burning their own busses, the people on their busses attacked, and the rides continued, this was one of the things Martin did not support about the Freedom Rides. With the changes that the protests set on Albany, Albany would never be the same. King and the movement made a small victory in Albany, to them, this was still hope. Bus Boycott- On December 1st, 1955 a black woman named rosa parks did not want to give away her seat in a bus in Montgomery. For this, rosa was arrested and community leaders started a boycott (a type of protest) on the same year Dec 5th. The bus boycott started in a church meeting King hosted. The MIA wanted at least half of the African American people to support them. Eventually, King was made president of the MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association), and tried to be a good leader for equal rights, he tried his best to make the bus company and other companies give in to the boycott because most of the businesses were losing their money. When Martin Luther King tried to defend the MIA in court, the bus boycott ended in the last MIA meeting. Whites continued to ... ... middle of paper ... ...cism to the world and racial equality. Nearly 250,000 people gathered to listen to King's speech, who came from almost all the states in the U.S. The speech happened at the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C. King prepared his speech until August 28, 1963. His speech had one part in it that was the most famous from the rest of the speech, the last part of the speech, "I Have a Dream". He stopped reading his written speech that he had on paper, and began his "I Have a Dream" speech that he used sometimes before during different speeches. One of the famous parts of his speeches were when he said " I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." When his speech was over, he affected many people's lives, his speech started the racial equality he hoped for after he was done

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