Martin luther

Martin Luther King

By ciroozzo
  • Period: to 1929 BCE

    The birth of Martin Luther King Jr

    He was born in Atlanta,Georgia
    His father was a pastor and his mother was a teacher

  • Peaceful struggle

    Peaceful struggle
    Rosa Parks, a dressmaker and a black activist, is arrested because she refused to give way to a white man on a bus, King takes something and decides that it is no longer possible to bear injustice in silence.

  • I Have a Dream

    I Have a Dream
    Martin Luther King's most famous speech, which contains the famous phrase "I have a dream" On the occasion of a major demonstration for civil rights, in front of a crowd of 200 thousand people. In the passionate speech King asks simply justice and equality and dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE

  • The Civil Rights Act

    The Civil Rights Act
    the Civil Rights Act was approved, a civil rights law that abolished discrimination in public services of all kinds, hotels and motels, restaurants and stadiums, theaters, public libraries, work and labor unions. In the same year, Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Selma

    Selma
    The American town of Selma, Alabama, is of great importance for the history of the civil rights movement of African Americans in the United States.
    About six hundred people, who were demonstrating peacefully to demand the right to vote for all African Americans

  • Martin Luther King murdered

    Martin Luther King murdered
    Martin Luther King had become a point of reference for an entire community.
    Precisely for this reason, white America, bigoted and conservative is afraid of him, King becomes the target of threats of all kindsin Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King is killed by a shotgun of a large caliber just before going to a meeting in a local church. His killer, James Earl Ray, is arrested