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The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Life of Martin Luther King Jr. Aaron Harris Jr. 4 th Period 6/1/11. Childhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in his grandparents ' large house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia .

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The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

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  1. The Life of Martin Luther King Jr. Aaron Harris Jr. 4th Period 6/1/11

  2. Childhood • Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in his grandparents' large house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. • He was the second of three children, and was first named Michael, after his father. Both changed their names to Martin when he was still young.

  3. Education • Growing up Martin Luther , King attended Atlanta Public Schools, first David T. Howard Elementary, then Booker T. Washington High School, where he was quarterback of the football team. • In 1945, when Martin Luther , King was only fifteen years old, he entered Atlanta's Morehouse College. • He studied sociology and considered going into either law or medicine.

  4. The Albany Movement • The summer of 1961 Martin Luther , King was a supporter of the Freedom Rides, a campaign of bus trips from north to south, intended to desegregate bus stations and lunch counters simply through the use of them. • John F. Kennedy was not the President for a full year, but already his handling of civil rights issues disappointed King and other civil rights leaders. • Kennedy depended on Southern Democrats, and even had appointed some segregationists to judgeships in the South.

  5. Selam • Martin Luther King believed a second bill was necessary to secure voting rights for African Americans. • Toward the end he decided to launch a major SCLC voter-registration drive. • SCLC member Jim Bevel suggested the drive take place in Selma, Alabama, where an unsuccessful SNCC voter-registration drive had been going on for months.

  6. Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago • Martin Luther King Jr. visits buildings to support the black freedom struggle. • King and the southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC) joined to fight. • Accord would be an important step toward making Chicago an open city, but blacks denounced the settlement and the Daly administration never fulfilled its promise.

  7. Assassination and Legacy • Martin Luther King interest in a strike of black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee in the spring of 1968 reflected his growing concern with economic issues. • The workers wanted to get equal money as the whites. • Taking time out from planning events for the Poor People's March, Martin Luther King flew to Memphis on 28 March to participate in a rally of 6000 people. • When April 4, 1968 at 6:01pm while standing on his balcony he was shot in the neck by a sniper’s bullet. That was when he was pronounced dead at 7:05pm he was only 39 years old. • The alleged killer, James Earl Ray, was apprehended a month later in the Airport in London. He confessed to the killing, but retracted his confession after he had been imprisoned.

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