2. VISION AND MOTIVATION
1. Slavery in the United States ended in the late 19th
century.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was a well-known
civil rights leader and activist who had a great deal of
influence on American society in the 1950s and 1960s.
3. Martin Luther King sought to raise the public
consciousness of racism.
4. His goal was racial equality and campaigns were held
for equal rights for African American.
5. In 1955, King became involved in his first major civil
rights campaign in Montgomery, Alabama, where
buses were racially segregated.
3. WHAT DID MARTIN LUTHER KING DO TO PROGRESS
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?
1. Bring publicity to major civil rights activities and
efforts.
2. Emphasize and encourage the importance of non-
violent protest and resistance.
3. Provide leadership to the African-American civil
rights movement.
4. King’s accomplishments are numerous. Some of his
major achievements included: Memphis Sanitation
Worker Strike, Montgomery Bus Boycott, African-
American Civil Rights Movement and his famous "I
Have a Dream" speech
