Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement. He grew up in the segregated South and became a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama where he led the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to protest racial segregation. In 1963, he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. He continued his advocacy for civil rights and racial equality, organizing additional protests and marches, until he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.

1. Raquel Enríquez Álvarez
2º Bach. CCSS

2. Youth
 He lived in a segregate society.
 He studied at Booker T. Washinton High School in Atlanta.
Then he went to Morehouse College. Finally, a long time
after he got his PhD in the University of Boston.
 He got married with Coretta Scott in 1955, an they had four
children.

3. Montgomery
 He became a priest of that city
when he was 25.
 In the south of USA in that years
there were a lot of violence
against black people.
 He boycotted the buses in 1955
there to finish with segregates
laws.

4. The Great March on Washington
 He was one of the leaders
who organized this event.
 More than 250000 people
went to Washington ,
being this the biggest
manifestation of that city
in the whole history.
 He said there his famous
speech “I have a dream”.

5. St Augustine, the Civil Right Acts
and Nobel Prize of Peace
 In May and June de 1964,
Martin and other leaders of
civil rights started an action to
demand the situation.
 The march at night finished
with a lot of people hurted for
racist people and hundreds of
people were under arrest.
 Civil Acts Rights were aproved
the 2 of July 1964. The same
year, in October, he won the
Nobel Prize of Peace.

6. Bloody Sunday
 The 7th of December 1965, 600
civil rights defenders left Selma
(Alabama) to go to Montgomery,
the capital of the state, to
demand the problems that had
black people with electoral lists.
 They were stopped in the
Edmund Pettus brigde with so
much violence.
 Finally, the 21th, 3200 people
left Selma and arrived to
Montgomery the 25th.
 A few days later, the president of
USA, Johnson sign the Voting
Rights Act.

7. Murder
 Martin Luther King moved to
Memphis (Tennessee) to lean
black refuse collectors, trying to
obtain a better salary and treat.
 The 4th of April 1968 he was
murdered in the Lorraine Motel
of that city.
 After de murder, the city
negotiated the end of the refuse
collector´s strike.