The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

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A Son Is Born!!!

• Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15,
  1929. His parents were Alberta and Martin
  (Luther) King. His father was the pastor at
  Ebenezer Baptist Church. They must have been very
  proud.

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Married Already?

• Some people find it hard to believe Martin Luther
  King Jr. asked Coretta Scott to marry him. On
  their first date!!! Funny right?!?

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SCLC

• Martin became the president of the SCLC. SCLC
  means Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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Atlanta

• Martin moves to Atlanta. He eventually had four
  children.

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I HAVE A DREAM!!!

• Martin gave his I Have A Dream speech in
  Washington D.C.

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PEACE PRIZE!!!

• Martin won the Nobel Peace Prize for being the
  most non-violant man alive at the time.

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WHY DEAD???

• Martin Luther King was murderd by James Earl Ray.
  He was a good man Martin was. Many people were
  upset. Of course who could forget about his wife
  and children?? He made life wonderful for many
  people.

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Holiday

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on January 11. I
  hope I am right I got it on Wikipedia. Thats an
  untrustworthy site,thats what my teacher said.

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Part Of His Speech

• I am happy to join with you today in what will go
  down in history as the greatest demonstration for
  freedom in the history of our nation.
• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose
  symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the
  Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree
  came as a great beacon light of hope to millions
  of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames
  of withering injustice. It came as a joyous
  daybreak to end the long night of their
  captivity.
• But one hundred years later, the Negro still is
  not free. One hundred years later, the life of
  the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles
  of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
  One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a
  lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast
  ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years
  later, the Negro is still languished in the
  corners of American society and finds himself an
  exile in his own land. And so we've come here
  today to dramatize a shameful condition