Презентация, доклад Мартин Лютер Кинг

rights leader

the only black American whose birthday is a national holiday. It’s celebrated on the 3rd Monday of January each year

well-known for his campaigns to end racial segregation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States

Martin Luther King’s Day is combined with Civil Rights Day in Arizona and New Hampshire, Human Rights Day in Idaho and other days in different states

King, Jr.?

Martin Luther King was born in Montgomery, Alabama

His father was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

King was a high school dropout

He met his future wife Coretta while studying in Boston

King’s first chuch was his father’s church in Atlanta

Martin Luther King was not named Martin at birth

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people in the USA were slaves, with no rights

In 1868 black people got the right to vote, but in the Southern states there was still segregation (separate schools, parks, restaurants etc. for whites and blacks)

In 1954 segregation in schools became illegal, but it still existed in public places – stores, parks, churches and transport. There was a law, which said that black people had to stand and sit only in certain sections of trains and buses

In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, an Afro-American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and was arrested. Martin Luther King, the minister of a Baptist church, was chosen to lead the protests.

1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, in a well-off family of pastors.
King experienced racial prejudice early in life. Segregation was both law and custom in the South and other parts of America

King graduated from Morehouse – the all-black college in Atlanta in 1948

He studied theology at Boston university where he received a doctorate in 1955 and met his future wife Coretta Scott

In 1955 he moved to Montgomery, Alabama and became a pastor at the Baptist church

King’s birth home in Atlanta

Park’s arrest

In 1956 the Supreme Court banned the racial segregation in public transport

Martin Luther King led protests and marches against racism

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King lead demonstrators on the fourth day of their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

racial segregation in publicly-owned facilities. Here, President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes the hand of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the signing of the landmark piece of legislation.

King was arrested several times during his lifetime. In 1960, he joined black college students in a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter. Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy interceded to have King released from jail, an action that is credited with helping Kennedy to be elected President.

steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. during the "March on Washington.“, 1963

There, he delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech, which boosted public support for civil rights.

Quotations and sayings:

Quotes and Sayings:

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. 

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

- I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

for Peace from Gunnar Jahn, president of the Nobel Prize Committee, in Oslo on December 10, 1964.

King was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968

King, Jr.?

Martin Luther King was born in Montgomery, Alabama

His father was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

King was a high school dropout

He met his future wife Coretta while studying in Boston

King’s first chuch was his father’s church in Atlanta

Martin Luther King was not named Martin at birth

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False

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