Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. Inspired by advocates of nonviolence such as Mahatma Gandhi, King sought equality for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and victims of injustice through peaceful protest. Because of him black people get treated way better . He was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington, this helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986. He made a really big change in black History.
      I chose this person because i admire him. Also because he made a big change in black
history. Some of his accomplishments were moving people into believing into what he believed, standing up in front of many people to protest rights and explain that all people are created equal and deserve the same treatment. Dr. Martin Luther King uses emotional appeal when he say's “I am not mindful that some of you have come here out of much trials and tribulations. Some of you have come from fresh narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest—quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.”