Martin Luther King Jr. By Cathy
About Him January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968 Michael Luther King, Jr., Martin. American clergyman, activist African American civil rights movement non-violent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi Modern American Liberalism
Great Achievements 1953 King married Coretta Scott 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1963 March on Washington– “I have a dream” 1964 Nobel Peace Prize 1968 Ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War 1968 Assassinated, in Memphis, Tennessee
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 Claudette Colvin, arrested for refusing to give up her seat Jim Crow laws (the system of southern segregation) Urged and planned by Nixon and led by King Lasted for 385 days Ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses
SCLC; Southern Christian Leadership Conference In 1957 Moral authority, power of black churches Gandhi's nonviolent techniques FBI began telephone tapping warned King to discontinue the suspect associations Blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights Enacted into law of the United States
Between1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times Turned over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement 1986 “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day” as a U.S. national holiday (3rd Mon of Jan) The Lorraine Hotel National Civil Rights Museum
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