Martin Luther King Junior personality

The study paper focuses on the eight perspectives on the personality of Martin Luther King Jr. The research paper describes Martin Luther King Junior and his life history. Character attributes that characterised Martin Luther, particularly as a civil rights activist, such as drive, self-confidence, and intelligence, which benefited him in his political activity, are among the key viewpoints of Luther’s personality covered in the study paper. The talk focuses on his interactions with various people, including his family members and his wife Scott, as well as his educational history. The study details out how intelligent Dr Luther was while still young and how his education helped him achieve his objectives in life, the biological state of Martin Luther and his psychoanalytic life. Moreover, the discussion grosses over the phenomenological state of Luther and cognitive personality that Dr Luther reflected by relating the current situations with the knowledge he had to influence people into making the right decision. The research also gives a description of the view if Martin Luther was fixated at some point in his life. The undertaking describes the interesting part that brings up the question of; “was Dr Luther assassinated or killed by a lone gunman?”

Eight Perspectives on a Famous Personality

Introduction

Personality is the complex characteristic traits that defines an individual and distinguishes them from other people. The facet describes an individual in a better way (Stewart & Winter, 2014). Personality can also distinguish different countries and groups from others. Different individuals have divergent characteristics and only a few traits of an individual will be the same with that of others. Dr Martin Luther King Junior was born in 1929. He was the middle child of Alberta and Michael. Martin went to school at an early age. His intelligence helped complete his studies at the age of seventeen (Zaleznik, 2015). Martin achieved various academic goals and obtained different degrees from various universities. Notably, it is in Boston where he obtained a doctorate and became Dr Luther King Junior. Dr Luther married Scott and fathered four kids. Martin Luther achieved all his goals as a minister and a civil right leader despite the tough circumstances he went through with the help of his character traits. All his psychoanalytic, phenomenological and cognitive life moments encouraged him to keep fighting for the sake of his fellow blacks so that all the blacks would be treated equally with the Americans (Herbert, 2016). It is through the great personality that Dr Luther portrayed that enabled him to leave back the great history of a courageous civil right leader of the blacks.

Martin Luther King Junior Biological Life

Martin Luther a great civil right leader was born in the year 1929 in the month of January where he was given the name Michael and later changed it to Martin. He was the middle child of Michael King senior and Alberta Williams King. His father was a pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church based in Atlanta while his mother, Alberta was a teacher. Martin Luther came from a humble background where his family came from a poor farming community (Zaleznik, 2015). Martin was greatly raised according to Christian’s ways, which later enabled him become a successful pastor, minister and civil right leader.

Luther’s Education

Martin Luther King Junior he had to accomplish all the education levels that would give him the various titles that he had to become the successful civil right leader he was before his demise. Martin King Junior started his learning processes at an early age. According to Zaleznik (2015), since his mother was a teacher, she gave him the chance to start learning earlier. Nevertheless, Martin Luther could not be accepted at David Howard Elementary school since he was only five years old and the school was admitting children that were of six year and above. Martin was to be admitted next year after attaining six years. It is interesting how intelligent Martin Luther turned out to be, as he did not complete his high school (Herbert, 2016). Martin Luther skipped his first and last years in high school and went direct to college when he was only fifteen years old. The first degree that King attained was the degree in sociology. He later got the chance to work with the church after being exposed to the writings of Henry David. At seventeen years, King got the chance to be ordained as a minister after giving his first speech in Ebenezer Baptist Church. In 1951, Luther graduated with a degree in Divinity and in 1955, he achieved doctorate and became Dr Martin Luther in Boston University. It is thus interesting how King finished his academics at an early age.

Luther’s Relationship

Relationship refers to the connection that brings two or more people together emotionally. Relationship can be both between young and old, male and female as well as between families. The first relationship that Luther Junior had was the relationship between him and his parents and family members. He had a cordial relationship with his parents and grandparents. Martin Luther King Junior later got married to Coretta Scott the youngest daughter of Obadiah and Bernice. Their marriage relationship started in 1953 after a wedding ceremony conducted by his father King Senior. Notably, having achieved many academic goals, Martin’s life and relationships were overlooked by most of the reporters.

Although Dr Luther Junior relationship was at peace, it became complicated between him and his father when he wanted to marry a German woman whereas his father wanted him to take act in the pulpit. His relationship with his wife Scott also became complicated when she realized that he had different relations with different women (Herbert, 2016). It became evident when the FBI who continuously monitored his moves as a civil right leader presented a recording of Luther and another woman to his wife. The other relationship that was more complicated to Luther Junior was between him and the F Kennedy family when he made a call to his wife explaining that he had nothing to do with Kennedy’s release (Herbert, 2016). Thus, it can be summed up that the relationship of Luther was complicated since many knew him.

Traits of Luther

As an individual, there are different characteristic traits that define a person. The traits of a person will determine the relationship that one will have with others. As a civil right leader, Luther had various leadership characteristics that enable people believe in him as their leader by influencing them into achieving a common goal (Pardey, 2015). One of the traits that Luther had was intelligence. It portrayed when he completed his high school when he was just fifteen years old only (Herbert, 2016). He was so intelligent that he had achieved several university degrees while still young. Persistence is another character trait seen in Dr Martin. Martin became people’s minister and leader in fighting for their rights. Championing the entitlements of African American people was not an easy task and therefore Martin Luther had to be a persistent leader. Although he went through incarcerated circumstances, Martin never quitted and continued working towards his dreams. Martin never gave up even in the unexpected situations.

Dr Martin Luther Junior was brought up in a humble family but that did not hinder him from improving his self-confidence. As a leader to many, Luther had to practice high self-confidence for his followers to continue believing in him as their leader. Dr King maintained his strong self-confidence that drew more African Americans into believing in him and this gave him the chance to change their lives by ensuring that they are treated equally by the Americans. According to Zaleznik (2015), with the self-confidence that Dr Luther had as a civil right leader, he was able to develop the character trait of constantly pursuing new directions. He did not stay in one lane but came up with new ways of fighting for their rights despite the treats and violent attacks they faced. Lastly, the leadership trait that made Dr Luther be successful is determination (Herbert, 2016). Dr Luther had only one goal that he aimed at achieving of making sure that Africa Americans were treated equally. The inner drive and passion that Dr Luther had made him be inspired more to fight for the African American people even though he was taken to prison at certain circumstances. Zaleznik (2015) explains that while in prison, perseverance was portrayed in Dr King, which made his movement more powerful.

Luther’s Psychoanalytic Life

Psychoanalysis is the processes of studying people’s mind and treating the mental disorders revealed by the roles of the unconscious mind. Psychoanalytic refers to the state of being able to study people’s mind and influencing the mental disorders portrayed by unconscious minds positively. Having being famous because of the unexpected things he did, Dr Luther Junior became an influence to most of the unconscious minds of people especially the Africa America as their leader (Herbert, 2016). He got the chance to study people’s mind and avail treatment where needed during his ruling as civil right leader of African Americans. The first and the most interesting incident in Dr Luther’s life where his personality as a psychoanalytic was spotted was when he successfully carried out a peaceful non-violence campaign fighting for the civil rights of the Africa Americas. He influenced the mind of people especially those in India when he detailed that non-violent campaign was the greatest weapon against the oppressed people (Herbert, 2016). The other incident where Dr Luther’s personality of psychoanalytic was seen was where he influences most church members to go to school. He was a church member but also a graduate with different degrees. He secured the chance to treat the minds of church members by advising them that he was not chosen as the figurehead of civil right leader because he was a reverend but also because he held various degrees in his education background.

King’s Phenomenological Theory

As indicated by Townsend (2016), phenomenology is the study of one’s consciousness as it is experienced from the first person point of view. There are those incidences where Dr Luther Junior practiced phenomenology. Since Dr Luther was one of the blacks that were not treated equally, he had experienced what it felt like to be among rejected people. Zaleznik (2015) argues that when he decided to take up the responsibility of being a civil right leader, he had the conscious that he had to fight for the rights of those blacks who were rejected. Dr Luther had experienced the treatment that Africa Americans encountered and thus got more determined to fight for the rights of equal treatment by Americans. The other incident where Dr Luther Junior practiced phenomenology was when he accepted to be ordained as a minister after presenting his speech in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (Herbert, 2016). Dr Luther knew in church activities and teachings that his parents taught him especially his dad as he as the pastor. Dr Luther could not refuse the chance of being ordained as minister since he his conscious was set to serve the people of Atlanta, Africa Americans, as their civil right leader. Dr King Junior knew that once he is ordained as minister in the church, it would give him a better chance of attracting more followers.

Luther’s Cognitive Life

Cognitive aspect is the processes of relating to the mental processes available to be involved in the knowing and understanding of things. As Luther was a good influential leader, cognitive was also another personality that Dr Luther portrayed in his life before he died. This personality of Dr Luther Junior was spotted, as he was an effective leader with good morality that he developed through his parents, the church and actual life experiences. He applied the moral rules and ideas to solve the problems that he understood the cause (Herbert, 2016). Luther’s personality of being cognitive was seen when he taught that God is love and that they should love each other. Luther got the chance to go to church and during slavery he acquainted with the church teachings about love and the situation of slavery that the people experienced. He managed to help multitudes understand that loving all people would help them stay at peace even though they were slaves of the Whites.

The said personality of cognitive in Luther was also seen when he took up the responsibility of fighting for the Africa Americans rights who were not treated equally by the Americans. Dr Luther related the problem of Americans not being comfortable around the blacks with the way things were happening in Atlanta. He came to understand that the hatred that the Americans had for blacks was the drive that pushed them to commit more offenses (Herbert, 2016). His cognitive personality helped him understand the reason why the Americans did not treat blacks equally.

Has Luther Ever Been fixated?

Fixated is the process by which one maintains the state of thinking about a certain issue repeatedly. Has Martin Luther King Junior ever been fixated? The question brings curiosity of wanting to know if there was that one moment when Dr Luther concentrated on thinking about one issue for a long time. As a famous civil right leader, he could never have lacked those moments when he was fixated. One of the moments in which Dr Luther was fixated was when the president Kennedy said that he did not want Dr Luther anywhere near him. This happened when the president came to know that known men of the white house were secretly involved in the Communist Party operatives and were working under the instructions of Dr Luther Junior (Herbert, 2016). This got Dr Luther focusing all his efforts and thoughts into convincing the president that he was not involved in the Soviet Union Cold War.

The End of Luther Junior

It is said that from the soil, people originated and in it shall they return. Dr Luther Junior was assassinated through shooting. He was rushed to the hospital in the year 1968. Luther Junior was shot while he was standing on second floor balcony in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. According to Kirk (2014), questions about the death of the civil right leader were brought up. It remained that was it a conspiracy or a lone gunman who killed Dr Luther Junior. Dr Luther left a great history as a civil right leader of the blacks and wished that everyone would remember him because of the way he fought for the black’s right (Kirk, 2014).

Summary

Summarily, Dr Martin Luther King Junior was a great civil right leader who fought for the rights of the blacks continuously without giving up even though there were tough circumstances. It can be concluded that Luther’s relationship was complicated right from the relationship he had with his father to the relations he had with his wife Scoot. He never enjoyed having a peaceful marriage since he was the outlook of every reporter after being ordained as a minister. Dr Luther Junior was intelligent. He managed to finish high school at the age of fifteen and college at the age of seventeen. The great characteristics of Dr Luther such as intelligence, determination towards fighting for the rights of blacks, persistence and self-confidence despite the humble family he came from helped him become a great leader.

His psychoanalytic personality enabled Dr Luther influence the negative minds of people by carrying out actions that preached peace. The cognitive personality helped him to relate the problems he was dealing with and later understand the way things happened. As a civil right leader, Dr Luther was involved in politics, which at one point lead him to being fixated. It happened that the president Kennedy came to know that two men who were communist and involved in the Soviet Union during the cold war were working for Dr Luther. It was so fixating to Luther when the president decided not to allow Luther anywhere near him.

In 1972, the great Dr Luther the civil right leader, Ebenezer Baptist church pastor and a minister in Atlanta died. It is thus concluded that Dr Luther influenced many people during his ruling as a minister and a civil right leader of the Africa American when he ensured that Americans treated the blacks equally. In addition, individuals from other countries are today inspired by the story of Dr Luther to employ the various character traits that he used in his political life.

References

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Townsend, D. (2016). Phenomenology and the Definition of Art. Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, 8(2), 133-139.

Zaleznik, A. (2015). Martin Luther King, Jr., and Militant Nonviolence: A Psychoanalytic Study, 149-162.