Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 and grew up in the city. He attended Morehouse College and became a Baptist minister. King led the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and organized additional nonviolent protests and marches for civil rights. Some of his most famous speeches include the "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963. Tragically, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 at the age of 39 while supporting a sanitation workers strike.

1. Martin Luther King Jr was
born in Atlanta, Georgia on
January 15th of 1929 to his
parents, Martin Luther King
(Sr.) and Alberta Christine, in
the house where Christine
lived with her family during
the early 20th century.
MLK Jr. and his 2 (Write out
numbers less then 10) siblings,
Willie Christine and Alfred
Daniel, along with their
parents until the early 1930s
when the family move (add an
ed at the end of move) into a
new house when Martin was
12
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4. Ebenezer Baptist Church (pictured) is where
Martin Luther King’s powerful preaching came
to be. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, King was
baptized at this church as a young child. At the
age of 19 was officially ordained as a minister.
Until his death in 1968, he held the position of
co-pastor of the church, , (remove the extra ,)
which he obtained in 1960, alongside his Father
Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
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African American Culture and History

6. King attended Morehouse College in 1944, at the age of 15, and graduated in 1948 with a Bachelor’s
in Sociology ( add a period at the of Sociology)
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7. Martin Luther King Jr. is pictured with his mentor, Benjamin E. Mays, who was the president
of Morehouse in the 1940s whilst King was a student. Mays was a social activist who
encouraged black Americans to stop willing be oppressed and do something about it now
instead of later. King Jr. and King Sr. learned a lot from Mays’s teachings (period at the end)
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8. While studying for his doctorate at Boston University, King met his wife (insert ,) Coretta Scott King.
In 1953, they were married and had four children: Martin Luther King III, Yolanda King, Bernice
King, & Dexter King. King moved back to Scott’s home state, Alabama and became the pastor of the
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama.
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9. On December 1955 an (a instead of an) plan, made by the newly made Montgomery Improvement Association,
to fight racial segregation in the South was put into motion (add a ,) and Dr. King was the leader of it. A group
of activists decided to boycott the transit system of Montgomery by having Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat
to a white person. This boycott would be a first of many for King ( period at the end)
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10. While King was arrested for protesting his beliefs, the Birmingham Plan, made to
end segregation, was being put into action by organizing the March on Washington.
On August 28, 1963, after he was released from jail, 200,000 citizens of every color
watched Dr. King speak at the Lincoln Memorial. He used his iconic “I Have a
Dream” speech to tell his listeners about equal justice for every American and
preached that “all men, someday, would be brothers.” The Civil Rights Act of 1964
was passed because of the actions of this March (period)
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11. King’s methods were tested during a civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama on March 1965.
Though King was not the march (,) he did organize it. The marchers did not make it to their
destination of Montgomery because they were met with state troopers who were not afraid to use
their nightsticks and tear gas. The second march, that King attended, was much more peaceful even
though some of his followers did not agree. King delivered his speech, “How Long, Not Long” to his
over 1,500 listening ears, at the Alabama state capitol building. This led to the passing of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 (.)
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12. Sadly, King’s time was cut short. On April 3rd (,) 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed, on
the balcony of The Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, Tennessee, while he took a detour to support a
(remove the a) sanitation workers strike.
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13. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change was established by his
wife Coretta Scott King in 1968, informs the attendees about Martin Luther Kings life and
legacy as well as his philosophies and teachings. The center also glosses over the life of
King’s wife and Mahatma Ghandi. (Gandhi was misspelled)
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