King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the position to be a pastor, like his father, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King continued to study, and later received his Ph.D. in systematic theology in 1955. The next thing that happened is something that King never would have predicted, this young pastor was in for something much bigger than he had ever imagined…

On 5 December 1955, an African-American women who frequented the Montgomery bus system, refused to give up he

In his short life, Martin Luther King was instrumental in helping us realize and rectify those unspeakable flaws which were tarnishing the name of America. The events which took place in and around his life were earth shattering, and represented an America which was hostile and quite different from America as we see it today.

Without a doubt, African-Americans needed a Martin Luther King, but above all America in general needed him. Within a span of 13 years from 1955 to his death in 1968 he was able to expose, and teach America a lesson and lead it from many wrongs. Overall, America was put on the right track by the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and he will always be remembered as one of the greatest reformers in the history of the World.

President Kennedy responded to these protests in king’s favor by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which “placed greater responsibility on the federal government to protect previously disenfranchised groups from discriminatory treatment” ("Civil Rights Movement" Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. 1992 ed.)

In the middle of 1963, King lead mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were

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