There are many attributes and actions one must use when attempting to judge an individual’s type. There is a whole life here, so it is hard to convey my compete reasoning in changing my mind in determining King was a Champion Idealist versus a Teacher Idealist, as I thought for 10 years, in a short blog. Here are a few things that suggest that King was a Champion. The first was that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a poet at heart – a trait in many Champions. He labored over his speeches to make them poetic. Secondly, King’s preference seems to have been to be much more an advocate than a mentor. He did not seek to become the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott; he was more interested in continuing as a preacher of his church. He came into his leadership role through the efforts of others - EJ Nixon engineered the election of King to lead the boycott, for King had just arrived from Atlanta. Being new, Nixon felt that King had a clean slate with the local white community, and which would serve better in the upcoming struggle. In the mark of a Champion, once King accepted the challenge of the cause, he was fully committed – to the eventual cost of his own life. He persisted, traveling the country through all adversities until his death in the service of the cause of civil rights.