Hello, I am the son of Martin Luther King Jr. My dad as you know was a major part of the Civil Rights Movement. My dad was born on January 15, 1929. My dad got shot on April 4, 1968. The place where my dad was shot at The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on the back porch. My dad's real name was Michael but his dad changed both of their names to Martin to honor the German Protestant ( Martin Luther). My aunt's name was Willie Christine and my uncle's name was Alfred Daniel. My dad entered More House College at the age of 15. the Montgomery Bus Boycott was urged and planed by E.D. Nixon (It was led by my daddy soon following). The boycott lasted for 381 days. This boycott got so tense that my daddy's house was bombed and then my daddy was arrested during the campaign. Since my daddy was arrested it turned into a Supreme Court decision that made public racial transportation illegal. My daddy represented the SCLC, which organized the March on Washington for jobs and Freedom. The march did have demands like to end segregation in schools, and a $2 minimum wage for all workers. with out the tension it was a success. More then a quarter of a million people were there from the Lincoln Memorial steps, to the national mall, and around the reflection pool. When my daddy said the " I Have A Dream " speech at the time was the largest gathering of protesters in Washington. My daddy's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was written in 1963. On October 14, 1964. My daddy was the youngest person to get the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35 which was awarded to my daddy for leading non- violent resistence to end racial segregation in the united States. In 1966 after several of successes in the south my daddy and other people tried to spread it to the north with Chicago as the first stop. The SCLC formed a coalition with CCC, Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, an organization founded by Albert Raby Jr. IN Chicago Abernathy later wrote that we got less reception then in the South. Are maces were met by thrown bottles and then we got kind of scared to do a riot. My daddy would call off the march if he thought other people would get hurt. When my daddy and his allies came back from the south they left Jesse Jackson in charge of the organization. One campaign targeted A&P stores because they did not let colored people like me work as a clerk. In 1965, my daddy started to have doubts about the Vietnam war. In April 4, 1967 my daddy was at the New York City Riverside church. It was an exact year before my daddy got shot and died in Memphis Tennessee. My daddy delivered Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. In the speech he spoke strongly against the U.S.'s role in the war, insisting that the U.S. was in Vietnam "to occupy it as an American colony" and my daddy also argued the this country Needed larger changes in the government. My dad was hated by many southern white people. MY daddy told North Vietnam not to bring in any more troops until the U.S. brings in tons of thousands of U.S. soldiers. My daddy also said that the United States was killing million of Vietnamese people that were mostly kids. My daddy started to speak of how to change in the political and economic life in the U.S. My daddy also stated in his "beyond Vietnam" speech "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." My daddy said from Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America that the U.S. was on the wrong side of a world revolution." In 1968 My daddy and the people from the SCLC organized the " Poor Peoples Campaign." My daddy's and the SCLC campaign was not supported by other civil right leaders. My daddy's economic bill of rights tried to make massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. My daddy's vision was for change that was more revolutionary than mere reform: he cited systematic flaws of racism, poverty, militarism and materialism, and that "reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced."

In late March 1968 my daddy went to Memphis, Tennessee in support of black sanitary public works employees that have been on strike since March 12 because they wanted to have higher rages and to have much better treatment. On April 3 my daddy delivered his last speech which you should know "I have been to the Mountain top" was at Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ, Inc. - World Headquarters). My daddy's flight was delayed because there was a bomb threat again the air plane that my daddy was on. My daddy was booked in room 306 at the Lorraine motel that was owned by Walter Bailey in Memphis Tennessee. Reverened Ralph Athernathy was there when my daddy died and said since mt daddy stayed there so many time that it was called " King Abernathy Suite. while my daddy was standing on the second floor of the motel a guy name James Earl Ray shot and killed my daddy. at 6:01 during the night. The bullet hit my daddy in the right jaw and then went down his spinel cord before going into his shoulder. The phones did not work so Kyles yelled to the police to get one on their radios. It was found that because of The shot to my daddy the switch operator had a fatal heart attack. My daddy was announced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m. Five days after my daddy's death President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a National day for my daddy's horrible death. My mom and my brothers and sister of mine all won a trail against Loyd Jowers because he was paid $100,000 for arranging my dads death.

Here are two pictures of my dad.

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