1. Martin Luther King Jr.
By Cathy

2. 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

3. 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

5. 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

7. 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

9. 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

12. THANK YOU