Originally posted by ghuffman
Oh my

sorry the question was greatest human being
Martin Luther King I assume you are talking about the father of Martin Luther King Jr. To bad Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches and the movement he was the face of did very little to actually change much.
Homicide rate tripled and is currently double of 1955
Unemployment is also double what it was back in 1955
Blacks earned 55% of whites in 1955
Blacks now earn 57% of whites in 2012
The major fight was to get equal opportunity to education yet only 53.7% of blacks graduate high school.