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Martin Luther King Jr.

January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968

Lisa SlatonFloyd A. SmithCindy Thibeault

Jennifer WebkingAngelo Tenorio

DeVry UniversityMarch 9, 2012


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We chose Martin Luther King (MLK) because he possessesextraordinary leadership qualities due to his faith in Godexemplified on a daily basis. He believed people should notbe treated differently based upon the color of ones skin.For this reason MLK fought and died for peoples rights so

they would no longer be discriminated and the right tofreedom of speech. He was also a very influential leader,who focused not only on African Americans but any minoritythat was unjustly treated.


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MARTIN LUTHER KING: BIOGRAPHY

1929-Dr. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia,

Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School at age15, skipping ninth and twelfth high school grades. 1948- Attended Morehouse College where his father study

and graduated with a Bachelor of Art degree in Sociology. 1951-Graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary in

Chester, Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Divinity degree 1953- Met and Married Coretta Scott King, who study at

New England Conservatory of Music. 1955- Graduated from Boston University, received his PH.D

of Philosophy on June 5. He went south and worked as a Pastor of Dexter Avenue

Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.


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1957 The SCLC was formed and elected aspresident of SCLC- Featured in the cover of time magazine

- Delivered first speech at LincolnMemorial- Congress passed the first civil rights act

1957 -- His first book was released titledStride Towards Freedom

- Meet with President Eisenhower1960 Eisenhower signs the civil rights act

into law- meet with President Kennedy toget support for the civil rightsmovement

1963 meets with Kennedy anddelivered the I Have a dream speech- Release his second book titledThe Strength of Love


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1964 Time Magazine honors MLK as man of the year

- The third book was published titled Why CantWait

- President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of1964

- Became the youngest person to receive the NobelPeace Prize

1965 A March with 25,000 other protestors for votingrights

- Voting Rights was signed by President Johnson

1966 Speaks out in regards to the policy in Vietnam war

- Dr. King, Floyd McKissick, and Stokely Carmichael

resume the March Against Fear after JamesMeredith was shot and injured

- Dr. King marches on the issue for open housing inChicago and is stoned by bystander.


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1967 The fourth book was released titledWhere do we go from here.

- Dr King makes appeal to stop the

riots.1968 Dr. King leads sanitation workers in amarch.- Dr. King Deliver his last speechcalled I have been to themountaintop.- Dr. King was shot and killed- President Johnson declare April 7,1968 to be a national mourning day inhonor of Dr. Martin Luther King.

1977 Dr. King was awarded the PresidentialMedal of Freedom by President Carter.

1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day wasestablished as a national holiday in theUnited States


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*What King Accomplish Before His Assassination*

*In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the DexterAvenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always astrong worker for civil rights for members of his race.

* King was, by this time, a member of the executive

committee of the National Association for the Advancement ofColored People, the leading organization of its kind in thenation.

* He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the

leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration ofcontemporary times in the United States, the bus boycottdescribed by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honorof the laureate.


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*Emerged as a Negro Leader*

*During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his homewas bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at thesame time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

* In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern ChristianLeadership Conference, an organization formed to providenew leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights

movement. The ideals for this organization he took fromChristianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi.

*In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, Kingtraveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-fivehundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice,

protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books aswell as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massiveprotest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention ofthe entire world, providing what he called a coalition ofconscience.


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*Assassination*

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was theyoungest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Whennotified of his selection, he announced that he would turnover the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of thecivil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on thebalcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where hewas to lead a protest march in sympathy with strikinggarbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.


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Kings Leadership Qualities

King is vividly remembered as an inspirational speaker.

Kings leadership was rooted at oratory.

He always had a non-violent approach to everything

He had a remarkable ability to get people to get peoplewho would constantly argue to work together

He would always listen while others talked and argued, and

in the end would calmly sum up what the discussion wasabout and he would then find a reasonable conclusion tothe problem.


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While leaders valued Kings ability to calm downcampaigns, they also valued his ability to escalate them aswell.

Some people despised King as being a hypocrite who spokeabout peace and non-violence due to the fact that he wouldalso at times create the strife and disorder.

For King leadership meant standing up for what he believedin and being a drum for justice

King also spoke for and to African Americans and thechallenging oppression the white people formed fromhearing his non-violent call to arms.


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Kings effectiveness as a protest leader derived mainly fromhis ability to mobilize the black communitys resources.

Kings Speeches such as the 'I Have A Dream' speech at thecivil rights march struck people of all races, and created anunremarkable coalition for anti-racist legislation.

Lots of people are only now beginning to recognize theextent to which his attitudes and those of many otheractivists, white and black, were dramatically changedthrough their involvement in a movement in which ideaschanged from the bottom up as well as from the top down.


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**Martin Luther King Jr.- His Legacy** ********** Racial Equality************** *Racial equality offered a vision of the possibility of

ending segregation. *Integration thru schools and employment. * Provided a moral & theological basis for integration. *Use of non-violence resistance as effective Model for change.

*Federal laws to legislative acts, action without waiting for southern hearts to change themselves.


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**********Economic Equality********** *Related racial equality to economic equality. *Theoretical basis for affirmative action to create

equality and equal rights for everybodyregardless of race, sex or religion or beliefs.

*empowered common people to act for changelegislation and personal sacrifice i.e. Rosa Parks.

*His last action in life was in support of sanitation workers rights, the common man and worker.


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*********Inspirational Legacy********** *Ethical, moral framework for equality beyond black-

white equality.

*Preservation of memory-legacy thru street names, &the Washington, D.C. memorial. *Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday-January 16. *Offered leadership model for future social change

and equality for all that still today inspires future generations. *Martin Luther King Jr , with his ideas, written word and selfless acts has stood the test of time and is a testament to his legacy


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References

Alderman, D. H. (2003). Street names and the scaling ofmemory: the politics of commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.

within the African American community. Royal GeographicalSociety(with the Institute of British Geographers), 35.2, 163-173.

Brown, Mitchel. "Timeline of Events in Martin Luther King, Jr.'sLife." Time and Events in Martin Luther King, Jr's Life. LSU, 1996.Web. 5 Mar. 2012.


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King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience. New York,Harper & Row, 1968.

King, P. (2003, January 4). Martin Luther King Style ofLeadership. BBC HOME. Retrieved fromhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/recent/martin_luther_king_01.shtml

Martin Luther King, Jr. (n.d.). ORACLE ThinkQuest. Abstractretrievedfrom http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/martin_luther_king,

_jr_.htm

Moses, G., (2001). To Begin Where We Have Not Reached:Affirmative Action in the Philosophy of Martin Luther, Jr. NWSAJournal, 98(10), 54- 73.


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