Martin Luther King Jr: An Unconventional Hero

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Heroes, crime fighting people that save the world from bad guys and super villains. Some heroes might be like that, but not my hero. This man was a normal person that rose to a opportunity that he saw and took it. He help many people with their hardships of being treated differently. My hero is Martin Luther King Jr, he had many great ideas that changed history forever. I think that he did it all out of love not popularity and he did so in a peaceful way, therefore I think he is a great hero.



Martin Luther King Jr started with the idea of not riding the bus until they stopped making the African Americans sit in the back. ("King, Martin Luther, Jr..").The idea was sparked by a woman named Rosa Parks (He had a dream). She refused

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