MLK jr : I had a dream project

1. MLK jr: I had a dream project By: Hope Gloria

2. Did he fulfill his dream? • I think that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr did fulfill his dreams because his dream was to end racism every where so black people and white people can no longer be in separated restrooms water fountains, and sinks.

3. How he grew up born Jan. 15, 1929, Atlanta, Ga., King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers. His parents were college-educated, and King's father had succeeded his father-in-law as pastor of the prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The family lived on Auburn Avenue, otherwise known as “Sweet Auburn,” the bustling “black Wall Street,” home to some of the country's largest and most prosperous black businesses and black churches in the years before the civil rights movement. Young Martin received a solid education and grew up in a loving extended family.

4. MLK speach • He presented a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1964. When he had walked on the Memorial he had spoke his speech (I have a dream) and it had touched many hearts when he said the speech and when it ended a huge applause from the audience came. A year later he had won the Nobel Peace Prize.

5. Martin Luther king jrassasination • Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. On June 10, 1968, James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state Penitentiary. Ray's many later attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and be tried by a jury were unsuccessful; he died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70.