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Martin Luther King Jr.

By joey0401

  • Early Life

    Early Life
    King was born in Atlanta Georgia in a confortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern black ministry. His father, Reverend King Sr., was the assistant pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church and his mother, Alberta Williams, was what was considered a house wife. He also had two siblings, Christine who was older, and Alfred Daniel (A.D.) who was younger. ("King, Martin Luther Jr.")
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  • Reverend King Sr. becomes pastor

    Reverend King Sr. becomes pastor
    When Reverend Williams died in 1931, Kings father, Reverand King Sr., succeeded him and was pastor for more than 50 years untill his death in 1984 "(Martin Luther King Jr.)"

  • High School Education

    High School Education
    The young King went to segregated public schools and then to Booker T. Washington High School, which he left after two years when he qualified to enter Morehouse College in 1946 where he pursued a major in sociology, King recieved his degree in 1948. "(King, Martin Luther Jr.)"

  • Major Impact

    Major Impact
    "His leadership was fundamental to that movement's success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States." ("King, Martin Luther Jr.")

  • Marraige

    Marraige
    King met Correta Scott in 1953 and immediatly fell in love. They got married that summer in Boston. "(Martin Luther King Jr.)"

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day

    Martin Luther King Jr. Day
    King's work is carried on at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. In 1986, his birthday, January 15, became a national holiday ("King, Martin Luther Jr.)"

  • Death

    Death
    "I've been to the mountaintop . . . and I've seen the Promised Land," he told his followers shortly before, on April 4, he was shot by a sniper as he stood on the balcony of his motel room talking with Jesse Jackson and other followers. In 1969, James Earl Ray pled guilty to assassinating King, but in 1999, King's death was "declared the work of a conspiracy rather than that of a lone gunman." "(Martin Luther King Jr.)"

  • Symbolic Sign #1

    Symbolic Sign #1
    "Bull - To see a bull in your dream symbolizes stubbornness, strong will, strength, and power." ("Dream Moods Dream Themes : Animals") MLK represents a bull because he went and took on all of his problems headstrong and never backed down. No matter all the racial segregation he went through all of his life no one and nothing ever broke his will power. It takes tremendous strength to go through everything he did and still make a change in the world