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Martin Luther King, Jr. By Imer Nunez 3 rd Grade Havard Elementary Social Studies. Martin Luther King as a Boy. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. When Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy, he asked his mom why some people said mean things.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. By Imer Nunez 3rd Grade Havard Elementary Social Studies
Martin Luther King as a Boy • Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. When Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy, he asked his mom why some people said mean things. • When Martin Luther King Jr. turned older he became a minister. Picture of his childhood home.
Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. told people not to fight with guns. Martin Luther King Jr. told African-Americans to boycott the buses because when white people came Africans-Americans needed to give them their seats.
Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. • Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech was made in front of the Lincoln Memorial . His famous speech was I have a dream that one day black girls and black boys could be friends with white girls and white boys.
Facts About Martin Luther King • Martin Luther King, Jr. won the Nobel Prize because of his work.
Facts About Martin Luther King • In 1968, he traveled to Tennessee. He was standing on the balcony of his motel when a gunshot rang out. A man had been waiting to kill him.
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday • Today Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated on the third Monday in January.
Resources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. • Book: The Life Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. • http://www.thekingcenter.org/holiday/index.asp • King, Martin Luther, Jr. (2009). America the Beautiful. Retrieved January 26, 2009, from Grolier Online http://atb.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?templatename=profile.html&assetid=atb011b06&assettype=b • Lewis, D. L. (2009). King, Martin Luther, Jr. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 26, 2009, from Grolier Online http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0160490-0 • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. 100% Educational Videos(1998). Retrieved January 26, 2009, fromDiscovery Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ • http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Martin_Luther_King_Assassination • http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm