Martin Luther King Jr.

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Personal Facts

• Born Jan. 15 1929- Atlanta, Georgia• Died April 4 1968- Memphis Tennessee• Lead Civil Rights movement in U.S.• Advocated non violent protests against

segregation

Milestones

• Selected as pastor of church in Alabama• Received Ph.D in Systematic Theology• Helped desegregate buses in Montgomery.

Alabama• Delivered “I Have A Dream” speech• Assasiniated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee

Did You Know?

• MLK was strongly influenced by Mohandas Gandhi

• First African-American named Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”

• Spoke against poverty and Vietnam war

MLK Trivia

• Did MLK win the Nobel Prize?• Who was MLK’s spouse?• Did MLK graduate from Morehouse College?