A hero is a courageous person who achieved something in life. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a peacemaker. He was the leader of the civil rights union. He made a speech that stopped segregation. This speech was called “I have a dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. stopped segregation. One of the things he did was join a bus boycott in 1955. After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1st, he became the official spokesman of the group. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that the bus segregation rules were illegal.