Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• By Zach Walls
• Garrett Blyler
• Tyler Cain

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Biography

• In January 15, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. was
  born in Atlanta into a racist environment.
• He was a minister and a Civil Rights activist.
• He attended at Atlanta, Black All Male College.
• He had a wife ( Coretta Scott King ) and four
  children.

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Did You Know That

• It took him eleven years to finish high school.
• Dr. King became a pastor at his fathers church,
  Ebenezer Baptist Church.
• He was put in jail because of leading his
  protest.
• He made a famous speech called I Have A Dream
  on August 28, 1963.

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Contributions

• He led blacks in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in
  1955 1956.
• King organized a march on Washington D.C. that
  drew 200,000 people demanding equal rights.
• He was involved in the letter from the Birmingham
  jail.

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Honorary Degrees

• Doctor of Humane Letters, Morehouse College
• Doctor of Laws, Howard University
• Doctor of Divinity, Chicago Theological Seminary
• Doctor of Laws, Morgan State University
• Doctor of Humanities, Central State University
• Doctor of Divinity, Boston University
• Doctor of Laws, Lincoln University
• Doctor of Laws, University of Bridgeport
• Doctor of Civil Laws, Bard College
• Doctor of Letters, Keuka College
• Doctor of Divinity, Wesleyan College
• Doctor of Laws, Jewish Theological Seminary
• Doctor of Laws, Yale University
• Doctor of Divinity, Springfield College
• Doctor of Laws, Hofstra University
• Doctor of Humane Letters, Oberlin College
• Doctor of Social Science, Amsterdam Free
  University
• Doctor of Divinity, St. Peters College
• Doctor of Civil Law, University of New Castle,
  Upon Tyne

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Who Assassinated Dr. King

• James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. Martin Luther
  King Jr.
• If he wouldnt of got assassinated he would be 73
  years old today.

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Facts

• Dr. King attended and finished his early
  education at David T. Howard Elementary School.
• He attended Booker T. Washington High School but
  left before graduation due to his acceptance and
  early admission in Atlantas Morehouse college.

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I Have A Dream !

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had originally
  prepared a short and somewhat formal recitation
  of the sufferings of African Americans attempting
  to realize their freedom in a society chained by
  discrimination. He was about to sit down when
  gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out, "Tell
  them about your dream, Martin! Tell them about
  the dream!" Encouraged by shouts from the
  audience, King drew upon some of his past talks,
  and the result became the landmark statement of
  civil rights in America -- a dream of all people,
  of all races and colors and backgrounds, sharing
  in an America marked by freedom and democracy.

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Timeline

• 1929-He was born.
• 1935-1944-He went through his years at school.
  But he got accepted into a college before he
  finish high school.
• 1948-Grauduated from Morehouse College.
• 1953-Married.
• 1968-He was fatally shot.

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Quotations

• All men are caught in an inescapable network of
  mutuality.
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Human salvation lies in the hands of the
  creatively maladjusted.
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• I submit that an individual who breaks a law that
  conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly
  accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to
  arouse the conscience of the community over its
  injustice, is in reality expressing the highest
  respect for the law.

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Since M.L.K I have a dream

• African Americans are now free.
• They are not banned from certain places, we are
  now all considered equal.

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Work cited

• www.thekingcenter.com
• www.biography.com
• www.americanhertoric.com
• www.who2.com
• www.nobelprize.org
• www.usinfo.state.gov