1. A GREAT LEADER Martin Luther King Jr.

2. Background Overview Early Years Education Family Career

3. Early Years Born January 15, 1929 He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

4. Education Booker T. Washington High School Morehouse College  Sociology degree Crozer Theological Seminary  Masters degree Boston University  PHD degree at age 25

5. Family Wife  Coretta Scott Children  Yolanda  Martin Luther King III  Dexter Scott  Bernice

6. Career Baptist Minister  Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Civil Right Activist  Spoke on race related issues  Stood for equal rights for all

7. Removing a burnt cross from his lawn April 25, 1960

8. Tense Moment Coretta was unhappy with her husband not pressing charges against his attackers.

9. Accepting Award Martin Luther King Jr. accepting his Noble Prize for Peace in Oslo, Norway December 10, 1964.

10. Marching against inequality Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African-Americans.

11. In Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. sits in a jail cell at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama

12. The Casket Martin Luther King Jr's casket being carried through streets on a mule- drawn wagon in Atlanta, April 9th, 1968.

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