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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation Made by History 1 Classes

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation Made by History 1 Classes. Ancient Greece and Rome Civil Rights Across Time Connections to MLK Importance for Today. Lorraine Hotel Memphis Tennessee April 4, 1968. BANG !. Tragedy. Martin Luther King Jr. - Assassinated April 4, 1968

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation Made by History 1 Classes

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  1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. PresentationMade by History 1 Classes

  2. Ancient Greece and Rome • Civil Rights Across Time • Connections to MLK • Importance for Today

  3. Lorraine Hotel Memphis Tennessee April 4, 1968

  4. BANG ! Tragedy...

  5. Martin Luther King Jr. • -Assassinated April 4, 1968 • -Nobel Peace Prize Winner • ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech • Leader in Civil Rights • Movement

  6. Solon 638 BCE to 558 BCE -Was an aristocrat. -Got rid of slavery debt. -Forced to die because of his efforts to close gap between upper and lower class. -Poet and a law maker.

  7. Clisthenes570 BC-Unknown • -Wanted Athens to govern itself rather than a leader • -Created a new system that increased devotion to the polis, rather than just the individual • -Made an assembly of 500 citizens • -Father of Athenian democracy along with Solon and Pisistratus

  8. Tiberius Gracchus168 BC-133 BC -Roman military leader -Turned against senate, joined plebian assembly -Wanted to break up big farms and give land to the lower classes

  9. Gaius Gracchus 154 BC-121 BC • -Little brother of Tiberius • -Wanted to continue the land reform • Founded colony in Carthage

  10. Martin Luther King Jr. • -Equal Rights for Blacks • Economic Justice for All • Thinking Continued • to evolve

  11. Economic Concerns Next Slide Show

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