1. Martin Luther King Jr. His role in the Civil Rights Movement

2. Civil Disobedience – Is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government using no form of violence. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks practiced civil disobedience techniques.

3. Non-Violent protest/Passive Resistance – Form of civil disobedience Montgomery Bus Boycott Sit-ins Selma Voting Rights Movement March on Washington – August 28, 1963 – 250,000 people marched to the Lincoln Memorial – People marched for jobs and freedom – United many groups of people and called for the passage of civil rights laws

4. March on Washington Martin Luther King Jr. – “I have a Dream Speech” Called for the end of discrimination and racial equality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RI KuH3tXM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RI KuH3tXM

5. Letters from Birmingham jail Open letter written April 16, 1963 – Martin Luther King wrote the letters from the Birmingham jail after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham protest. – He asserted civil disobedience was justified King responded that without nonviolent forceful direct actions true civil rights could not be achieved.

6. Assassination! April 4, 1968 a shot was fired by James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr. standing on his balcony was killed in Memphis, Tennessee Violence and controversy followed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmOBbxgx Kvo