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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. . BY: Nichole Hunter. Facts about Martin Luther King Jr . Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-American clergyman who advocated social change through non-violent means. A powerful speaker and a man of great spiritual strength, he shaped the American civil rights .

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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  1. Martin Luther King Jr. BY: Nichole Hunter

  2. Facts about Martin Luther King Jr • Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-American clergyman who advocated social change through non-violent means. A powerful speaker and a man of great spiritual strength, he shaped the American civil rights ...

  3. Facts about Martin Luther king Jr • (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.1 He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.2 King is often presented as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism.3 • A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career.4 He led the 1955

  4. Facts about martin Luther king • King’s father was born “Michael King”, and Martin Luther King, Jr., was originally named “Michael King, Jr.,” until the family traveled to Europe in 1934 and visited Germany. His father soon changed both of their names to Martin Luther in honor of the German Protestant leader Martin Luther. • King sang with his church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie Gone with the Wind. • Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school.

  5. What did he do when he was • King married Coretta Scott, on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents’ house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama. They had four children; Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King. • King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama when he was twenty-five years old in 1954. • Inspired by Gandhi’s success with non-violent activism, King visited Gandhi’s birthplace in India in 1959.  The trip to India affected King in a profound way, deepening his understanding of non-violent resistance and his commitment to America’s struggle for civil rights.

  6. What he did when he was young . • King was  awarded the Pace in Terries Award, named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII calling for all people to strive for peace. • King, representing SCLC, was among the leaders of the so-called “Big Six” civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place on August 28, 1963. It was at this event that King gave his electrifying “I Have A Dream” speech. • More than a quarter million people of diverse ethnicities attended the event, sprawling from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial onto the National Mall and around the reflecting pool. At the time, it was the largest gathering of protesters in Washington’s history. • King’s “I Have a Dream” speech electrified the crowd. It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory.

  7. What did he do when he was young • In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual ... In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist ... When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize ... King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? ...

  8. How many brothers and sisters did he have • He had an older sister, Willie Christine (September 11, 1927) and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel (July 30, 1930 – July 1, 1969 ...

  9. What did he do when he was young • Martin Luther was born to Hans Luder (or Ludher, later Luther)9 and his wife Margarethe (née Lindemann) on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben, Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He was baptized as a Catholic the next morning on the feast day of St. Martin of Tours. His family moved to Mansfeld in 1484, where his father was a leaseholder of copper mines and smelters10 and served as one of four citizen representatives on the local council.9 The religious scholar Martin Marty describes Luther's mother as a hard-working woman of "trading-class stock and middling means" and notes that Luther's enemies would later wrongly describe her as a whore and bath attendant.9 He had several brothers and sisters, and is known to have been close to one of them, Jacob.11 Hans Luther was ambitious for himself and his family, and he was determined to see Martin, his eldest son, become a lawyer. He sent Martin to Latin schools in Mansfeld, then Magdeburg in 1497, where he attended a school operated by a lay group called the Brethren of the Common Life, and Eisenach in 1498.12 The three schools focused on the so-called "trivium": grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Luther later compared his education there to purgatory and hell.13

  10. when martin Luther king was little what kind of jobs did he do or work at • Martin Luther King is probably the most famous person associated with the civil ...King became convinced that such methods would be of great value to the civil ...the boycott - even driving some of the black community to work as the buses had been ... Many black Americans in the South still faced enormous problems doing...

  11. When he was little what was his mother name • Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that his mother "was behind the scenes setting forth ... Her younger son, Alfred Daniel Williams King, drowned in his own pool after ...

  12. What did martin Luther king do when he was a baby • He did lead the second march but upset some of his younger followers when he...Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community (1967), King argued that African ...On 3rd April, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. made a speech where he outlined the..... Quietly I told them that I was all right and that my wife and baby were all right

  13. When he was little what did he do • Dec 29, 2009 ...Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta on Sunset Adams Street in 1929. If hewas ... Martin thought he could do the same in America as Gandhi did with theIndians. He... Martin and Coretta had a baby girl in 1956. Martin ...

  14. He gave a speech • I Have A Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr • You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression

  15. 10 facts about martin Luther king jar • 1In June of 1948, he graduated from college with a BA in Sociology. In September of the same year, King attended the Crozet Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. In May 1951, he graduated from Crozet with a Bachelor in Divinity. He went on to Boston University where he studied systematic theology as a graduate student. • . December 21,1956 - The Montgomery buses were desegregated • On June 18,1953, Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott in Marlon, Alabama. In 1955, a lot of things happened to King's life that will shape history. • Months later on November 17, Yolanda Denise, his first child was born. King will eventually be blessed with three more children: Martin Luther King III (1957), Dexter (1961) and Bernice Albertan (1963). December 1, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery • A few days later on December 5, King became the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the bus boycott began. • King's first civil rights action began with a protest of the "segregated bus system" in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. He wanted people to boycott the bus system. Many people did boycott them for over a year. In 1956, the US Supreme Court demanded Montgomery provide "equal, intergrated seating on public buses".

  16. 10 facts about mat in Luther king • In 1957, King helped to establish the "Southern Christian Leadership Conference". This organization hoped to promote nonviolent protests againt racism and segregation • In 1963, King and his group organized many marches and peaceful protests. The most famous took place on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. This is where King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech to over 200,000 people. • He won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading none violent civil right demonstrations in 1964 • In 1966, he started a civil rights campaign in Chicago, he's first big effort outside the south.

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