Martin Luther King Jr.

By Parker Olenick

            What I like most about Martin Luther King is that he never gave up.  He went to jail multiple times fighting for human rights.  He held protests and boycotted restaurants and busses.  One of the people he admired most was a person named Mahatma Gandhi.  Gandhi helped free the Indians from the British.  He fought for human rights just like Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King’s goal was to have freedom and equality for all people, no matter what skin color or gender they are.  They should all be treated the same wherever they go. In his famous “I have a dream” speech, millions of people came to hear him speak about this.  They were convinced by his speech and more people agreed with him.  Unfortunately, he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.  He had a very short life, but he changed the world.