Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man in our country's history. He fought to get equal rights for the black community. King used a non-violent way of fighting. He conducted many sit-ins, and had many rallies at which he spoke. King is mostly remembered for one speech he gave entitled, "I HAVE A DREAM". He delivered this speech on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd …
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…at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty. We are free at last!" Martin Luther King Jr. drastically changed this country. Without him and his strong beliefs and insistency of giving blacks the same rights as whites, then more than likely, black people would still be segregated from whites. The courage of this man from Georgia turned our whole country around. Everyone owes a great deal to his man, no matter your ethnicity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**