Who Is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Presented by Selena Stafford

 Martin Luther King, Jr. was born Michael King on January 15, 1929 to the Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther King Senior in Atlanta, Georgia  He later changed his name from Michael to Martin

 1935 – 1944 he went to David Howard Elementary school, Atlanta University lab. School and Booker T Washington High School. In 1947 he was licensed to preach with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He graduated from high school at the age of 15 years old.

Dr. King the Student  In 1948 Martin Luther king became a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta at the age of 15  He graduated with a bachelor of Art degree in Sociology when he was 19 years old

 In 1951 May 6-8 Martin Luther King Jr. graduates from Crozer Theological Seminary divinity school in Pennsylvania  He graduated with a bachelor of divinity degree

Marriage  On June 18 in 1953 Martin Luther King Jr. Married Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama

The Pastor  October 31 st in 1954 Rev. Martin Luther King Senior installs Martin Luther King Jr. as the 20 th pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama

Awards  June Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded his doctorate in systematic theology from Boston University in Boston, Mass.

Birth Of The First Child  On November 17, 1955 the Kings’ first child was born her name is Yolanda Denise she was born in Montgomery, Alabama

The Protest  On December 1 st 1955 Rosa Parks gets arrested because she did not give up her seat on the bus.

Election  December 5 – Dr. King was elected the president of the Montgomery improvement Association at a meeting of community leaders.

Speeding  January 26,1956 Dr. King is arrested for traveling at 30 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour speed limit.

House Bomb  January 30, 1956 There was an bomb set on Dr. King’s porch.

Speaker  August 10, 1956 Dr. King is a speaker at the platform committee of the democratic party in Chicago

 January 27, 1957 An unexploded bomb is discovered on the front porch of the Kings’ house

SCLC  February 14, 1957 Dr. King establishes the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC).

Speech  Dr. King gives a speech that is named “ Give us The Ballot.”  He wanted equal voting rights for all people

June 13, 1957 Dr. King Meets the President of the United States His name is

 A second child was born His name was Martin Luther King III

 Dr. King gets arrested for Loitering ( later changed to Not obeying a Police officer.)

 Dr. King was stabbed on September 20 th 1958  They said that the lady was mentally crazy

 November 29, 1959 the King Family moves to Atlanta, Georgia

 Dr. King gets arrested  He is found not guilty by an all white Jury

 August 28, 1963 Dr. King meets President John F. Kennedy

Third Child  Their third child, Dexter Scott is born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 31st, 1961.

Who is Dr. Martin Luther King? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the son of a preacher who worked hard to make many accomplishments in his life.  During his less than 13 years leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the 350 years before.  His inspiration was his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.  Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. Others were fighting for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence.  Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals.  He worked hard to show that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human family.

 Dr. Martin Luther King devoted his life to the civil rights movement through non-violent peaceful means. He believed that violence was not the way to get things done.  Martin Luther King was a powerful leader who practiced what he preached. Dr. King participated with a group of protestors on a march and when faced with what could have been a violent situation, he led them to kneel down and pray. I wonder what he would think of how we handle things now.  In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent work in the civil rights movement. After his death, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 In Conclusion,

Highlights of His Struggle for Justice  May 2, 1962 Dr. King is invited to join the protest in Birmingham, Alabama  July 27, 1962 Dr. King is arrested in Albany, Ga., at city hall prayer vigil and jailed on charges of failure to obey a police officer obstruction the sidewalk  October Dr. King Meets with the president John F. Kennedy at the White House for a one hour conference  March 28,1963 his fourth child named, Bernice Albertine  August 28, 1963 Dr. King gives his big speech, I Have A Dream  1962 – 1968 Dr. King worked constantly by having protests, sit ins, boycotts, speaking to government officials, giving speeches, in order to bring change for all people  Dr. King's speech, "I Have a Dream," on August 28,  April 3, 1968 Dr. King gave his last speech

 February 27, 1962 Dr. King is tried and convicted for leading the December march in Albany, Ga.

 Dr. King lead a march with 6,000 protesters

At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King got shot with a rifle in the head and neck After years of recognition as the greatest non violent leader January 20, 1986 was named day of the national celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Assassination

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Question Time!!!!!!  What is the year that Dr. King Died?  What is the year that Dr. King gave his I Have A Dream Speech?  What is the name of Dr. Kings’ first child?  What elementary school did Dr. King attend?

 Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.  Selected Bibliography Adams, Russell, Great Negroes Past and Present, pp Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing Co., Bennett, Lerone, Jr., What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King in Text and Pictures. New York, Time Life Books, King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Measure of a Man. Philadelphia. The Christian Education Press, Two devotional addresses.