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| Early Life: | Top á | ||
| Martin Luther King,
Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929 and named Michael
Luther King. When he was about six years old, he was renamed Martin
Luther King, Jr. He was one of three children of Martin Luther King
(who was a Baptist pastor) and Alberta King, a former schoolteacher.
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. attended elementary school, junior, and senior high schools in Atlanta. He graduate from Morehouse College in 1948 with a degree in Sociology. He decided to become a minister after meeting Dr. Benjamin Mays who inspired him to dedicate his life to the ministry. He attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. and won the Plafker Award for being the outstanding student of his graduation class and the J. Lewis Crozer Fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. He went on to complete his doctorate at Boston University in 1955. | |||
| Family: | Top á | ||
| He married Coretta Scott and had four children (Yolanda, Martin Luther III, Dexter, and Bernice). | |||
| Life's Work: | Top á | ||
The work (other than
the ministry) for which he
dedicated his life for was to change race relations in the United States
and to do it peacefully. This work began when Dr. King helped the
African-American
people in
 Montgomery,
Alabama boycott (boycott means to stop using something) the Montgomery city buses.
The African-Americans in Montgomery would not ride the city's bus lines because
they were required to sit only in the back of the bus. The front
of the bus was reserved for white people. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and
harassed for leading this boycott, but he never fought back. His home was even bombed.
Later, our U.S. Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional.
Then, African-American people could legally sit anywhere on the buses.(picture found on http://www.nps.gov/malu/frames/jframesr.htm) King went on to organize peaceful protest marches in other cities. Many African-American people joined his marches and so did some white people. They wanted to change some things that were happening to African-Americans. In most cities in the South, African-Americans could not eat in the city's restaurants, swim in the city's pools, and also could only sit in special "Blacks Only" waiting rooms at bus stations. Even restrooms had "Blacks only" and "whites only" restrooms. Dr. King, Jr. became a national hero for his work to help the United States give equal rights to people of all skin colors. He also received the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing this using peaceful means. |
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| On April 4th, 1968, Dr. King was shot while on the balcony Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennesse. A man names James Earl Ray was tried and sentenced for killing Dr. King. Many of Dr. King's family do not believe that James Earl Ray was responsible for the killing. James Earl Ray died in the prison hospital of cancer. | |||
| Information for this page came
from the following websites: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/ The Seattle Times http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/ Stanford University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Paper's Project http://www.thekingcenter.org/ The King Center
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Webpage author: Barbara Jones- Technology Trainer Bellevue Public Schools Revised: January 13, 2004 |
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