Who Is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Presented by Selena
Stafford
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born Michael King on January 15,
1929 to the Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther King Senior in Atlanta,
Georgia He later changed his name from Michael to Martin
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1935 1944 he went to David Howard Elementary school, Atlanta
University lab. School and Booker T Washington High School. In 1947
he was licensed to preach with his father at Ebenezer Baptist
Church in Atlanta. He graduated from high school at the age of 15
years old.
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Dr. King the Student In 1948 Martin Luther king became a
student at Morehouse College in Atlanta at the age of 15 He
graduated with a bachelor of Art degree in Sociology when he was 19
years old
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In 1951 May 6-8 Martin Luther King Jr. graduates from Crozer
Theological Seminary divinity school in Pennsylvania He graduated
with a bachelor of divinity degree
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Marriage On June 18 in 1953 Martin Luther King Jr. Married
Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama
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The Pastor October 31 st in 1954 Rev. Martin Luther King Senior
installs Martin Luther King Jr. as the 20 th pastor of Dexter
Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
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Awards June 5- 1955- Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded his
doctorate in systematic theology from Boston University in Boston,
Mass.
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Birth Of The First Child On November 17, 1955 the Kings first
child was born her name is Yolanda Denise she was born in
Montgomery, Alabama
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The Protest On December 1 st 1955 Rosa Parks gets arrested
because she did not give up her seat on the bus.
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Election December 5 Dr. King was elected the president of the
Montgomery improvement Association at a meeting of community
leaders.
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Speeding January 26,1956 Dr. King is arrested for traveling at
30 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour speed limit.
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House Bomb January 30, 1956 There was an bomb set on Dr. Kings
porch.
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Speaker August 10, 1956 Dr. King is a speaker at the platform
committee of the democratic party in Chicago
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January 27, 1957 An unexploded bomb is discovered on the front
porch of the Kings house
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SCLC February 14, 1957 Dr. King establishes the Southern
Christian leadership Conference (SCLC).
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Speech Dr. King gives a speech that is named Give us The
Ballot. He wanted equal voting rights for all people
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June 13, 1957 Dr. King Meets the President of the United States
His name is
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A second child was born His name was Martin Luther King
III
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Dr. King gets arrested for Loitering ( later changed to Not
obeying a Police officer.)
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Dr. King was stabbed on September 20 th 1958 They said that the
lady was mentally crazy
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November 29, 1959 the King Family moves to Atlanta,
Georgia
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Dr. King gets arrested He is found not guilty by an all white
Jury
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August 28, 1963 Dr. King meets President John F. Kennedy
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Third Child Their third child, Dexter Scott is born in Atlanta,
Georgia on January 31st, 1961.
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Who is Dr. Martin Luther King? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was
the son of a preacher who worked hard to make many accomplishments
in his life. During his less than 13 years leadership of the modern
American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4,
1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward
racial equality in America than the 350 years before. His
inspiration was his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of
Mahatma Gandhi. Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late
1950s and 60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in
the United States. Others were fighting for freedom by any means
necessary, including violence. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the
power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests,
organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible
goals. He worked hard to show that men and women everywhere,
regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human
family.
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Dr. Martin Luther King devoted his life to the civil rights
movement through non-violent peaceful means. He believed that
violence was not the way to get things done. Martin Luther King was
a powerful leader who practiced what he preached. Dr. King
participated with a group of protestors on a march and when faced
with what could have been a violent situation, he led them to kneel
down and pray. I wonder what he would think of how we handle things
now. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest person to
receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent work in the civil
rights movement. After his death, he was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004
In Conclusion,
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Highlights of His Struggle for Justice May 2, 1962 Dr. King is
invited to join the protest in Birmingham, Alabama July 27, 1962
Dr. King is arrested in Albany, Ga., at city hall prayer vigil and
jailed on charges of failure to obey a police officer obstruction
the sidewalk October 16 1962 Dr. King Meets with the president John
F. Kennedy at the White House for a one hour conference March
28,1963 his fourth child named, Bernice Albertine August 28, 1963
Dr. King gives his big speech, I Have A Dream 1962 1968 Dr. King
worked constantly by having protests, sit ins, boycotts, speaking
to government officials, giving speeches, in order to bring change
for all people Dr. King's speech, "I Have a Dream," on August 28,
1963. April 3, 1968 Dr. King gave his last speech
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February 27, 1962 Dr. King is tried and convicted for leading
the December march in Albany, Ga.
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Dr. King lead a march with 6,000 protesters
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At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been
standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel
in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King got shot with a rifle in the head
and neck After years of recognition as the greatest non violent
leader January 20, 1986 was named day of the national celebration
of Dr. Martin Luther King Assassination
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My Visits to Atlanta, Georgia
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June, 2006
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July, 2011
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Question Time!!!!!! What is the year that Dr. King Died? What
is the year that Dr. King gave his I Have A Dream Speech? What is
the name of Dr. Kings first child? What elementary school did Dr.
King attend?
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Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was
born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to
Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors
of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to
1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from
1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin
Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating
from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A.
degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro
institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather
had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer
Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president
of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in
1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate
studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the
doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he
met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon
intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters
were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King became
pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Always a strong 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 of Colored People, the
leading organization of its kind in the nation. 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, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his
presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted
382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the
United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring
segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals.
During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was
bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he
emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. In 1957 he was elected
president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an
organization formed to provide new leadership for the now
burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization
he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi.
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. 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", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned
the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; 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. Selected Bibliography Adams, Russell, Great
Negroes Past and Present, pp. 106-107. Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing
Co., 1963. Bennett, Lerone, Jr., What Manner of Man: A Biography of
Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, 1964. I Have a Dream: The
Story of Martin Luther King in Text and Pictures. New York, Time
Life Books, 1968. King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Measure of a Man.
Philadelphia. The Christian Education Press, 1959. Two devotional
addresses.
