Martin Luther King Jr
By Quinten Flasch
Some interesting facts are...
Martin Luther King has two son’s. One of their names is Martin Luther King lll and the other is named Dexter Scott King.
Martin Luther King has two daughters. One of their names are Yolanda King and the other is named Bernice King.
Martin Luther King died before his dad.
Born on Tuesday, January 15, 1929.
In 1964, at 35 years old, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
This federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader is observed on the third Monday in January. In 2014, the holiday falls on Jan. 20
Martin Luther King,, was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin.
His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
His father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor.
Martin Luther King attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College.
In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
King traveled over six million miles
King spoke over twenty-five hundred times.
King During his "I Have a Dream" speach.
This is MLK as a child.
This is a famiy picture of MLK.
Some more facts are....
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Martin Luther King Jr. was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King.
When Martin Luther King was 35 he was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister and social activist who played a role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s.
He attended in a graduate program at Boston University, he graduated two years later.
By the time the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating on public buses unconstitutional in November 1956, Martin Luther King was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi.
In 1960 King and his family moved to Atlanta.
Martin Luther King joined his father as co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Martin Luther King Jr worked with civil rights and religious groups to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.