I visited the Martin Luther King Jr National Park and The King Center for my site visit The Martin Luther King Jr National Park is a small section of Atlanta that has been preserved from the 1920s to 1930s It shows the house MLK grew up in some low income housing some houses across the street and a church down the street There was also a bus like the one Rosa Parks refused to get off of in the street in front of the houses across the street The King Center had a rooms full of displays that had videos playing that went over the bits of information they had on the walls Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta Georgia He lived with his mom dad brother and sister His dad and his grandpa were pastors at the church down the street So as a kid he was surrounded by his faith and by great speakers MLK grew up in the black community in Atlanta Here black people who had more a little more freedom to express themselves because they weren t allowed much room to do so in other places by white people As he grew up he was exposed more and more to the harsh realities of life When he was a kid he used to play with some of the white kids across the street
