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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS BORN
Was born in Atlanta, Georgia (USA).
He was named after his father, Michael.
After a trip to Germany in 1934, dad King changed his name and hi's son's name to Martin, because in the 500s a great religious leader was named like that. -
NAACP SUCCESSES
Successes were few, but the US government finally passed a very important law. Segregation in all US schools became illegal. -
KING AND THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
In 1955, Martin and Coretta were living in the black part of Montgomery, Alabama. The people at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church liked their new young preacher and his ideas. King, and other black Montgomery preachers, wanted to protest against segregation on city buses. -
STUDENT PROTESTS
Four black college students from Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at the lunch bar in the Woolworth's store. They ordered politely, but they would tell leaving because the lunch bars were for "WHITES ONLY". They refused to go and start doing sat downs on the bars -
KING GOES TO PRISON
The police arrested King with thirty-five students at Rich's lunch bar. They refused bail and were sent to prison. -
FREEDOM RIDES
The "freedom rides" rode Greyhound buses to bus stations and sat down in "WHITES ONLY" seats.
Over the next few months, Freedom Rides resulted in some of the nation's worst violence during the civil rights years. On May 15, a Freedom Ride bus was attacked by about 200 KKK men. They threw a firebomb into the bus near Anniston. -
FREEDOM WALK IN DETROIT
On June 23, 1963, more than 125,000 people marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. down Woodward Avenue in Detroit in an effort to promote civil rights. Participants included funeral home owner Benjamin McFall; activist and real estate broker James Del Rio (who later served as a state House member) -
I HAVE A DREAM
Martin Luther King Jr stood in front of more than 250,000 protest marches in Washington, D.C. and gave one of the most famous speeches in US history.
This protest march was the largest demonstration in the US at that time. About 60,000 marchers were white people; the other marchers were black.
They came from all parts of the US to the nation's capital because they wanted equality for all Americans. https://youtu.be/vP4iY1TtS3s -
MARTIN LUTHER KING DEATH
He was getting ready to go out to diner with his friends. Waiting for Abernathy, King went outside the hotel room and when he was joking with friends in the parking, they listened a gun shoot. King was hit in the face.
