The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Synthesis Essay

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Faisal Almadani

April 19, 2010

Mr. Farooq

IB English

Martin Luther King, Jr. Synthesis Essay

Freedom of speech is the right of every human being. Some people have that right and some people fight for it. Today, the law enforces that right, and we owe our gratitude to the legends of the past that fought for that right. Those legends, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. also fought for the right of caring and hospitality, and won the fights. Martin Luther King, Jr. proves to us in his Autobiography The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. that the whole human race deserves to be written about, no matter what the circumstances are. It is through the bus boycott, the speech “I Have a Dream” and his overall acts of non-violence that Martin Luther King, Jr. defines those rights in The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. lives in a time of segregation and unequal distribution of rights. He grows up to fight for his rights. He also attempts to define to the world the importance of one’s opinion and one’s words. He defines that in his first action against segregation; the Bus Boycott of 1955. He started the boycott in the honor of Rosa Parks, an African American who stood up to her race on a bus and refused to stand up for a white American and got arrested. He started this act to show to the whites that the voice of ...

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