Martin Luther King Junior

1. “I have a dream”

2.  Stopped segregation between whites and blacks
 Born January 15th 1929
 Died April 4th 1968
 He died at the age of 39
 Was born into Christianity
 Became a pastor
 Won the Nobel Peace Prize

3.  Middle Child
 Had an older sister and a younger brother
 King attended Booker T. Washington High
School
 Sceptical of Christ as a child
 As a smart student, King skipped both 9th
and 12th grades
 Received his Doctor of Philosophy at Boston
University

4.  Delivered 28th August 1963.
 Has been praised as one of the most well
known speeches in the world.
 Was 17 minutes long.
 Speech given outside Lincoln
Memorial.
 The speech that gave
African Americans, rights.
 250,000 people attended.

5.  Assassinated April 4th 1968
 Assassinated in Memphis Tennessee
 Bullet smashed through his right cheek
 Doctors say he had a heart of a 60 year old
man even though he was only 39
 Shot on his balcony of his hotel
 Led to riots all over America
 James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King