Martin Luther King's legacy

Considered to be the US version of Gandhi, Martin Luther King is viewed by many Americans as the great crusader who led the country out of the dark world of racial prejudice. His work in the Civil Rights Movement set the tone for the modern day acceptance of all people, regardless of their ethnic background. It all began for King when in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Although the Civil Rights Movement gained an enormous following, King came to realize how difficult it would be to repeat the same strategies that enabled the Voting Rights Acts in 1964 and 1965. However, more than thirty years after his death, his family have come to question if King was really the man everyone saw him as during his last days before his assassination. Up until 1968, Martin Luther King was on the move of creating a more socially equal America; first by taking down "Whites Only" signs off of drinking fountains, restaurants, parks, etc. At the time just before he was assassinated, King became more radical with the intention of forming a interracial coalition to end the Vietnam War and create some economic reforms. His family have come to the conclusion that he was no longer the Martin Luther King everyone knew him as and that the government, under Lyndon Johnson, may have been behind the plot to kill Dr. King. The question remains whether or not he'll be remembered for his actions during the Civil Rights Movement or for his newly discovered scheme to change the political structure. In regards to the rights given to African Americans and other colored people, I think that while people are more accepting today of other ethnicities, there are still pockets of discrimination aimed at colored people within society. Mostly it's out of ignorant thinking that certain ethnicities are inferior to others, particularly to whites. As long as the government doesn't forget the rights it enabled for these people, African Americans should feel their civil liberties are protected.