MARTIN LUTHER KING

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MARTIN LUTHER KING

• 1929 MLK was born in Georgia where he attended
  segregated public schools.
• 1954 MLK became a pastor in the Baptist Church in
  Montgomery, Alabama. He worked to get civil
  rights for black people.
• 1955 He led the bus boycott, the first great
  black non violent demonstration in the USA. The
  boycott lasted 382 days during which black people
  refused to use segregated buses in Montgomery
  (Rosa Parks).

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• 1956 the Supreme Court of the USA declared
  segregation on buses unconstitutional.
• 1963 MLK led a peaceful protest against
  segregation in Birmingham Alabama, he was
  arrested.
• 1963, in August MLK organized the peaceful march
  of Washington DC. 250,000 people listened to his
  famous speech I have a dream.

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• In his famous speech he talked about his hopes
  for the future when blacks and whites could be
  brothers.
• 1964 MLK received the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1968 MLK was assassinated.