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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Can anybody guess why I would be teaching you about Dr. King today?. That’s right! Because last Monday was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day which is a federal holiday celebrating his birthday. Who was Dr. King?.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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  1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  2. Can anybody guess why I would be teaching you about Dr. King today?

  3. That’s right! Because last Monday was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day which is a federal holiday celebrating his birthday.

  4. Who was Dr. King? • Civil Rights leader who lived from January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968 • Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. • Member of the  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • A leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) • President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957) • Nobel Prize winner

  5. Important Facts: • During 1957- 1968, Dr. King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times in support of the Civil Rights Movement. • He was arrested close to twenty times and assaulted at least four times. • On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

  6. Famous for: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963) “I Have a Dream” speech (1963)

  7. The Children’s Crusade

  8. Local historical impact On June 11, 1964 he was arrested in St. Augustine On May 29, 1964 the house King rented in St. Augustine was shot up.

  9. Currently:

  10. References: • http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html • http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_st_augustine_movement/ • http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_kings_assassination_4_april_1968/

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