Rev.Martin Luther King Jr.Rev.Martin Luther King Jr.

Born: January 15, 1929

Died: April 4, 1968

Fought For The Equality Of The Black In America

A Few FactsA Few Facts

Martin Luther King Jr. was born to the name Michael Luther King Jr.

He died at the age of 39 years old on the year 1968 at 7:05 pm

He attended at segregated public schools in Georgia graduated from high school at 15 received B.A. degree in Morehouse College

Youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize He gave $54,123 to the furtherance of the cvil

right movements Gave his first sermon at the age of 17

ChildhoodChildhood

He was born on 15 January 1929 in his grandparents large Victorian house on Auburn Avenue Atlanta,Georgia

Second of three children his father and grandfather were preachers

Racial DiscriminationRacial Discrimination

He had racial discrimination the first came when he began school his white playmates were to attend a different school from his and once school began their parents no longer allowed king to come over and play which first led his mom to explain him the history of slavery and segregation

But it didn’t end thereBut it didn’t end there

When King was in high school, he attended an oratory contest in Valdosta, Georgia, where he took second prize. His victory was soured, however, by the long bus ride back to Atlanta: the bus was segregated, and the black people had to stand so that the white people could sit.

So…..So…..

King grew up in a family that encouraged him to notice and respond to injustices. Later in life, his father and mother would always continue to support King's choices, though they were forced at times to witness the tragic consequences of those choices, including their son's premature death.

One of his most famous life One of his most famous life eventsevents The Montgomery Bus Boycott On December 1 1955 a black woman named

Rosa Parks refused to give her seat at a full bus in Montgomery Bus. Bus company policy dictated that black passengers fill seats from the back and white passengers fill seats from the front. Where the sections met, blacks were expected to yield to whites.

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The inequality sometimes led to physical or verbal harassment the driver had parks arrested and was released with a $100 bond the blacks organizations held a meeting and planned a boycott the following day barely a black rode the bus so the bus rode around empty the boycott lasted a year because of the this the bus companies lost 65% of their income

But ThenBut Then

instead of considering the demands of the MIA, whites attempted to end the boycott by other means, both unofficially, though a series of bombings and officially by courts

So It Ended So It Ended

After 382 days on December 21 1956 over a year after parks had refused to relinquish her seat the boycott ended and king rode his first desegregated bus but people still continued the bombings and they threw stones and shot bullets at buses

Later Life Later Life

In 1954 he became a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to

accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles

NEAR THE ENDNEAR THE END

In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail” the letter was smuggled out of the jail in scraps of paper

he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.