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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. " King became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.“. Birth and Family. Born as Michal Luther King on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He later changed his name to Martin.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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  1. Martin Luther King Jr. • " King became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.“

  2. Birth and Family • Born as Michal Luther King on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He later changed his name to Martin. • Parents: Alberta Williams King and Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. King at the age of six

  3. Education • King attended segregated public schools in Georgia • he graduated from high school at the age of 15 • In 1948 he graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. degree in Sociology and enrolled in Cozer Theological Seminary in Chester, where he was awarded a B.D. (Bachelor of Divinity) in 1951 • in September 1951 he began doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University and received the doctorate in 1955

  4. Wife and children • Marriage with Coretta Scott on June 18, 1953 • Four children: Yolanda Denise (17 Nov. 1955), Martin Luther III (23 Oct. 1957), Dexter Scott (30 Jan. 1961), Bernice Alberine (28 March 1963)

  5. The leadership of Martin Luther King • King was a leading personality of the Civil Rights Movement • he protested against racial segregation and discrimination of blacks in the Deep South • his methods of non-violent direct action were supported by many people and so the campaign for equality turned into a mass movement • they achieved two great victories: • the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • the Voting Rights Act of 1965

  6. The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) • Strict segregation rules of the Montgomery City Bus Lines: Black passengers had to sit in the back and had to give up their seats if the white section in the front of the bus became occupied. • Dec 01, 1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man. So she was arrested. • Black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King, who had accepted the pastorate of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church a year ago, as president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)

  7. In the end the boycott lasted 381 days and King gained national prominence as a result of his exceptional oratorical skills and personal courage. On December 21, 1956 the Supreme Court of the United States declared the laws requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional. Montgomery buses became desegregated and Negroes and whites rode them as equals.

  8. The march on Washington • On August 28, 1963 the March on Washington for jobs and freedom attracted more than 250,000 demonstrators to the Lincoln Memorial where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

  9. King was president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference took the ideal for his organizations from Christianity and his operational techniques from Mahatma Gandhi believed in a harmonious and peaceful co-existence of blacks and whites in a colour-blind America Solution: integration Malcolm X was a leading personality of the Black Power Movement Believed that racism should be opposed "by any means necessary" blacks should lean on their own strength and become independent of whites solution for the black man is racial separation, not integration Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X

  10. King and Malcolm X meet each other King and his idol Gandhi

  11. King reveives the Nobel Peace Prize • In December 1964, at the age of 35, Dr. King was the youngest man, the second American and the third black man awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. • He declared that every penny of the $ 54,000 would be used in the ongoing civil rights struggle.

  12. The death of Martin Luther King • On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennesssee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

  13. Sources: Biography: • http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html • http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html • http://www.stanford.edu/group/king/ Photos: • http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlkpics.html • http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/mlk

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