Exposé Anglais: Martin luther king

INTRODUCTION

Martin Luther King (1929-1968) is an African-American pastor who fought for the equality of the rights of the Blacks in the United States.

Pastor in Montgomery (in Alabama), Martin Luther King takes in 1955 the defense of a black worker, stopped to have refused to yield her place to a white passenger in the bus.

To this time indeed, the Blacks don't have some same rights that the Whites in the United States, in particular in the State of the South that practices the racial discrimination. In order to show his opposition, Martin Luther King organizes the boycott of the municipal buses during more of one year. He is jailed some months, but gets the abolition of the segregation finally in the public transportation of the city of Montgomery.

In the lineage of Gandhi in India, Martin Luther King defends the nonviolent methods to get more reforms. In 1957, he creates the Conference of the Christian leaders of the South (SCLC). Then in August 1963, he organizes an important pacific walk on the capital, Washington DC, for the equality of the rights. On this occasion, he pronounces before 200 000 people a speech become famous, in which he evokes his dream of an egalitarian society between Blacks and Whites ("I have a dream… ").

In 1964, Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Prize of the peace. He is murdered in Memphis April 4, 1968 by a White. Close to 100 000 people attend to his funeral ceremony.

Martin luther king, after having had courage to sacrifice his being even while taking in danger his life, he continues with several struggles and be pronounced in favor of the non-violence in struggle against the racial segregation and says: " […] and by your suffering and your will to accept the strokes without answering there, you get then in situation to influence your adversary's behavior, you unveil his moral values and make it vulnerable… "

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