King, born on January 15th, 1929 in Alabama, was the son of a Baptist minister and was raised with the idea that all people on this earth, no matter what the skin color, should be raised equally. His father, know to some as Daddy King, was an intellectual, serious man who believe that people of all races should be treated equally. King grew up in a simple, ramble home with Daddy King, his mother, his brother, his sister, along with his grandmother, and grandfather. His grandfather was also a Baptist minister. As a child, King was very intelligent. He was able to graduate from his segregated high school at the age of fifteen and in 1944, entered Morehouse College, a distinguished institution designed for Negroes where both his father and grandfather had attended. By 1948, at the young age of 1

Martin Luther King Jr. is perhaps one of the most influential people of all time, as he unified both generations and cultures. Born in Alabama, he was raised to be proud of himself. During his life he shared his pride with African- Americans everywhere and helped put and end to the segregation of the nation. For all these things, King’s legacy will live and the people of this nation will forever remember him. On the February 1957 cover story of Time magazine, they called King a man, “who in a little more than year has risen form nowhere to become on of the nation’s remarkable leaders of men,” and a remarkable leader of men Martin Luther King Jr. was.

Though King has been deceased for thirty-five years, we will always remember him as a prominent civil rights leader. Perhaps it is his five honorary awards we will remember him for, or maybe his Man of the Year Award from Time magazine in 1963, but I believe King will be remembered purely for the significant things he taught the world. His work enabled people of all ages and generations to rally together to work for an end to a single thing, segregation. All of his hard work has allowed us to become more unified as a nation and the people of our nation to be more integrated, not only in black and white, but in black, tan, white, yellow, brown, and any other color a person may be. King will always be remember for his relentless work. His birthday is commemorated by everyo

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