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= Segregation : A Reality to Some, and The man who Faced it head On =

We hear people talk about how they are being discriminated because of there color and that it is unfair(which it is) but it could be much worse like it was 1890-1960 There was a man who fought against slavery without violence someone with good morals who "had a Dream" a dream to live in a world were people were treated equally, his name and a hero to lots of people Martin Luther King Jr.

=__Who was Martin Luther King Jr.__= A man Who was not afraid to stand for what he believes and died perusing his dream. I will take on the road of Martin Luther King Jr. Journey, I will also show how hard it was for a black man or women in a time where they could not even be in the same schools as the whites.



Knowing what the problem is
What is segregation?

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Segregation is the act or separating one race from another based on color, or religious views. Segregation was lead by slavery and actions after it ended, Slavery has always been around but was demolished in America in 1865. After that blacks were still treated badly, they had some rights but not all the same as the whites and not as glamorous as the whites, their was //Black Codes:// Laws made for blacks that made their life harder. This triggered many rebellions. These Laws stated that blacks could not move, change jobs, it wasn't fair these laws were soon after ebolished but they laid out the road to come: Segregation.

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Martin Luther King Jr. knew from a young age the reality he will face as he grows older. Not having the same rights or being treated the same as a "white" would. He faced the hard fact of being discriminated because of his color. He didn't have the same rights, privileges as someone not of color, This was the founding foot the first step to the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. journey to fight for the freedom to be treated equal as everyone else.

__**Step 2:**__ __**A Black persons education**__

During this time period Blacks did not get the greatest of education. Why you may ask, Segregation a simple word with a hard meaning. Blacks went to their own school which was a broken down old hammy-down school, their books, text books, desk chairs, were all hammy-downs from the White children schools.There teachers didn't have the educations as a teachers for the whites would have. It was for a long time a hard, difficult, time for blacks everywhere including martin Luther King Jr..

Martin Luther King education

Martin Luther King Jr. learned how to and write by his mother before starting school. He always wanted to be as a good as a white man. He had went to Oglethorpe Elementary which was a private school. He had attended Brooker T. High School in Atlanta, and attended Morehouse College. He worked to prove he was just as smart as a white.

__**Step 3:**__ __**Achievments**__

There are many black achievements but Martin Luther King Jr. are the more popular. His achievements were:

Became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation, and racial discrimination using non-violent methods in 1964 Among Principal leaders of the Civil rights Movement Advocate for direct action nonviolent protest King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. Assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977; and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986 Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 2004

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