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1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activists

2. Basic Views of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
•Preached the ideas of
Mahatma Gandhi
•Non-violence, least
resistance
•Believed in equality of the
races; unity of all people
“The time is always
right to do what is
right.” – MLK, Jr.

3. Childhood
Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Born – Michael Luther King, Jr. on January 15,
1929 in Atlanta, GA
• Father was a paster, MLK took over at their
church
• Booker T. Washington High School
• Early admission to Morehouse College in 1944 at
age 15
• Received his PhD. In Systematic Theology from
Boston University in 1955, age of 26

4. Timeline for Martin Luther King,
Jr.
1955 – elected president of Montgomery
Improvement Association – helped with the bus
boycott
In 1956, the US Supreme Court
declared
segregation on the bus
unconstitutional.

5. Arrested in Alabama
• April, 1963 –
arrested for
protesting. Wrote
about his concerns
and criticized the
pace of justice of
civil rights for Black
Americans in
“Letter from a
Birmingham Jail”

6. “I Have a Dream”
• August 28, 1963 –
after meeting
with President
John F. Kennedy,
King delivers the
“I Have a
Dream” speech
on the steps of
the Lincoln
Memorial to an
estimated
250,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFcbpGK9_aw

7. King earns the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1964 – for his efforts;
prize money ($54,600)
turned over to further
the movement

8. Assassination of King
• April 4, 1968 – on
a balcony at the
Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, TN
• Killed by James
Earl Ray
• http://www.youtube.c