Martin Luther King Jr.
*Minister*
Birth: Tuesday Jan 15, 1929, At the family house.
Death: April 4, 1968, at Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
Early Influences:
• His Father
• His Grandfather
• Benjamin Mays
• Other proponents of Christian Social activism
Education:
• Morehouse College in Atlanta
• He skiped grades in elementary, and in high school
Major Accomplishments:
• Black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King as president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association.
• During 1958, he published his first book, Stride Toward Freedom.
• In April 1960, but he soon became the target of criticisms from SNCC activists determined to assert their independence.
• Early in 1968, he initiated a Poor Peoples campaign designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by early civil rights reforms.
• Subsequent mass demonstrations in many communities culminated in a march on August 28, 1963, that attracted more than 250,000 protesters to Washington, D. C. Addressing the marchers from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King delivered his famous" I Have a Dream" oration.
Significance:
• Good role model
• He helped people
• He made a speech changed the world.
• A minister
Contemporaries:
• Holling Gustav Vapor, character on Northern Exposure
• Art Prysock, jazz musician
• Sergio Leone, Italian, director
For Further Information
•Dr. Martin Luther Kinghttp://www.bham.wednet.edu/mlk.htm
•All About Martin Luther King, Jr.www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/
•Martin Luther King, Jr.http://spot.colorado.edu/~chernus/Nonviolence%20Book/King.htm
Created by: Matt S
Feburary 27, 2002
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