- 1. GOAL. Martin Luther King Jr. goes down in history as one of
the leader of the civil rights movement in the United States and a
leader of nonviolent protest. Kings commitment to segregation and
racist discriminations was his motivation. To stop the separation
between the blacks, and the whites. And fight for the civil rights
of the United States.
2. BIOGRAPHY King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was ordained
as a Baptist minister at age 18. He graduated from Morehouse
College in 1948 and from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951. In
1955 he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Boston
University. While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, who he married
in 1953. 3. King and other black leaders organized the 1963 March
on Washington, a massive protest in Washington, D.C., for jobs and
civil rights. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to
an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. The
speech and the march created the political momentum that resulted
in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited segregation in
public accommodations and discrimination in education and
employment. As a result of Kings effective leadership, he was
awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace. 4. Throughout 1966 and 1967
King increasingly turned the focus of his activism to the
redistribution of the nations economic wealth to overcome
entrenched black poverty. In the spring of 1968 he went to Memphis,
Tennessee, to support striking black garbage workers. King was
assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968. 5. Achievements. -African
American clergyman; ordained as a Baptistminister at 18.-Became the
youngest person to receive the Nobel PeacePrize for his work to end
racial segregation, and racialdiscrimination using non-violent
methods in 1964.-Among Principal leaders of the Civil rights
Movement.-Advocate for direct action nonviolent protest.-King
became a symbol of protest in the struggle for
racialjustice.Husband to Coretta Scott-King; together they were
parentsto daughters: Yolanda and Bernice. And sons: Martin IIIand
Dexter. 6. -Refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing
the Vietnam War from a religious perspective. -Assassinated on
April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. -Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1977; and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was
established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986. -Awarded
Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. 7. Leadership traits. Martin
Luther King was an amazing public speaker, hespoke his historical
speech I have a dream in front of300,000 other black protestors and
freedom speakers. He fought for good, and only for good, he was
giving hisway, for the freedom of all the colored people in the
UnitedStates, and for the civil rights of the United States. Back
then, the colored people were treated extremely bad,separate water
fountains for drinking, slavery, segregations,separation of blacks
and white, unfair advantages for whitepeople, and sometimes verbal
and physical assault. MartinLuther king, and a few other freedom
speakers such as RosaParks helped free the United States from
racial segregation.
