Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929. He had an older sister and an younger brother. His father was a preacher at the church. When he got older he married Coretta Scott.

There was a lot of civil rights movements but the main one was the march on Washington it was in 1963. He was trying to get the rights for blacks to be free and equal. He said a speech that was 17 minutes long soon to be known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. I can’t  think of anyone else who would step up for other people like that.

         He is my hero because of his bravery and courage. He stepped up for others and fought for equal rights and because of that we can be friends with blacks.