Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. He attended college at a young age and earned a PhD in theology. He married Coretta Scott King in 1953 and they had four children together. King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott starting in 1955 and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to promote nonviolent protest of racial segregation and discrimination. He delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in 1963. King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee while supporting a sanitation workers' strike.

2. HIS FAMILY
• He was born on 9
January 1929.
• He was called ML.
• He was son of the
Reverend Martin
Luther King and
Alberta Williams King.
• His parents fought for
African-American
rights.
• He had an older sister
and a youger brother.

3. EARLY YEARS
• He began school at the age of five.
• He was an excellent student.
• He skipped two grades.
• He was respectful.

4. HIS STUDIES
• He began the University at the age of
fifteen.
• He studied a Ph.D. in Divinity.
• He finished his studies in 1954, and he
moved to Montgomery (Alabama).

5. SENTIMENTAL
LIFE
• He married
Coretta Scott
in 1953.
• She wanted to
be a concert
singer.
• They had four
children.

6. NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED
• He helped Rosa Parks.
• He promoted the civil rights.
• He led the civil rights movement.

7. ROSA PARKS
• Rosa Louise
McCauley was born on
4 February 1913 in
Tuskegee.
• NAACP.
• Civil rights for African
Americans.
• Gold Medal of the U.S.
Congress.
• Parks died at the age of
92.

8. MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
• She didn’t give
up her seat to
white man.
• She was
arrested.
• Icon of the Civil
Rights
Movement.

9. SEGREGATION IN THE USA
• Segregation starting from Jim Crow
laws in 1876.
• Transports, schools and other public
places were divided.
• (Horario limitado).
• Many families lived in kitchenettes.

10. EXAMPLES OF RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION
• Transport
s.
• Hospitals.
• School.
• Public
places.

11. NOBEL PRIZE
• He won the ''Nobel
Peace Prize'' on
1964, because of his
behaviour to stop the
segregation using
nonviolent
movements.

12. · We all know that the
most famous speech of
Martin Luther King is
''I Have a Dream'' but it
is also very famous
''I've been to the
mountain top'' (1968)
''Loving your enemies''
(1957).

13. "A man can't ride your
back unless it's bent."
"A right delayed is a right
denied."
"A riot is the language of
the unheard."
"I want to be the white
man's brother, not his
brother-in-law."

14. BAPTIST MINISTER
• In 1954, he
became pastor of
Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church in
Montgomery,
Alabama.

15. “I HAVE A DREAM”
• This is his most
famous speach, it
was also his last
speach because he
died the next day.
• This speach talks
about Martin Luther
King's Dream about
segregation in the
USA and in all of the
world.

16. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S DEATH
• He was murdered by
a white man when he
was in a balcony in
memphis on 4 april
1968.
• Martin Luther King's
funeral took place in
Atalanta the 9 of April
1968.

17. JAMES EARL RAY
• This man was
who murdered
Martin Luther
King JR he has
to spend 99
years in prision
for killing MLK.

18. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY
• This is a day in
honor of this
national hero and
his work fighting for
civil rights and
aquality.

19. MADE BY:
• Marta Escudero Pineda
• Jose Luis Rascón Jódar