Birmingham Demonstrations and Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King and
Birmingham Demonstrations

Located in Birmingham, Alabama

By: Sofia G.

The story & Injustice to the African Americans

An injustice is a violation of the rights of others; an Martin Luther King getting hurt
unfair act. The injustice of the story was that a man and arrested by violent police for
named Bull Connor was hurting the African doing nothing.
Americans because of southern racism. The police (Martin Luther king is in the front)
was releasing attack dogs to crowd of African
Americans and swinging nightsticks at heads. They Whites bombed 16th street
even bombed churches The whites left the African Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Americans bloody and unclothed. They showed Alabama
segregation to the African Americans. Segregation is
a separation of a race, class or ethnic group from the
rest of others. Martin Luther king later got arrested
for protesting that it was truly unfair.

Legacy Rosa Parks
refusing to give
A legacy is something that is very important and something up her seat
that still matters to this day. Martin Luther king made
choices which leaded to the civil rights movement. The Martin Luther King having a speech and
Legacy in this story is that when Martin Luther king king standing up for what he believed in
refused to stop protesting that hurting the African
Americans were extremely wrong, he showed others such as
Rosa parks to not let go of hope and keep on doing what was
right. Martin Lither King and several others wanted to have
desegregate in the world. He showed this by protesting .
Desegregate means to stop racial separation in schools and
other public facilities.This went on as a Milestone. A
Milestone is an important event in history. Martin Luther
king has his own Milestone which is Martin Luther King Day
on January 15th. Martin Luther king day is all about him not
being afraid to stand up for civil rights.

Artifact

Primary Source

This is a picture which has Martin luther King
getting taken and arrested by Policemen as they
led the line to a Birmingham’s Business. This
picture shows the police were harsh and very
tough on the African Americans. It also showed
Martin Luther King not using any weapons and
was just randomly arrested because he was an
African American.

Artifact

Secondary Source

This is a picture where after Martin Luther King died but got his
way people started to create a statue. This statue is to show
that Martin Luther King helped people that were struggling all
over the world. He also showed that being an alien does not
mean people should treat you differently. An alien is a person
that is not born in the United States. Martin Luther king stayed
brave and left a legacy that will never be forgotten. Martin
Luther king. Even showed others to stand up such as Rosa parks,
and so many others around the world.

How can one person make a difference; Martin Luther
king

Martin Luther king kept on protesting and standing up for civil rights
and having no violence. Martin Luther king said….

“ We must not harbor the desire to retaliate with violence, we must not
lose faith with our white brothers.”

Martin Luther king wanted to be fair instead of doing violence like a lot
of people were doing. He chose to speak than to abuse others. He also
did not let his anger get to his decisions.

Works Cited

Altman, Susan, and Joel Kemelhor. Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage . Checkmark Books,
2000.
Davidson, James West. America: History of Our Nation . Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.

Newsela | Primary Sources: Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail,
newsela.com/read/primary-source-mlk-birmingham-jail/id/19807.

Haiti Chery, www.dadychery.org/2012/01/14/mlk-letter-from-birmingham-jail/.

www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/07/post_297.html.