Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation

Made by History 1 Classes

•Ancient Greece and Rome

•Civil Rights Across Time

•Connections to MLK

•Importance for Today

Lorraine HotelMemphis Tennessee

April 4, 1968

BANG !

Tragedy...

Martin Luther King Jr.-Assassinated April 4, 1968

-Nobel Peace Prize Winner

-‘I Have A Dream’ Speech

- Leader in Civil Rights Movement

Solon 638 BCE to 558 BCE

-Was an aristocrat. -Got rid of slavery debt. -Forced to die because of his efforts to close gap between upper and lower class. -Poet and a law maker.

Clisthenes 570 BC-Unknown

-Wanted Athens to govern itself rather than a leader-Created a new system that increased devotion to the polis, rather than just the individual -Made an assembly of 500 citizens-Father of Athenian democracy along with Solon and Pisistratus

Tiberius Gracchus168 BC-133 BC

-Roman military leader-Turned against senate, joined plebian assembly-Wanted to break up big farms and give land to the lower classes

Gaius Gracchus154 BC-121 BC

-Little brother of Tiberius-Wanted to continue the land reform-Founded colony in Carthage

Martin Luther King Jr.

-Equal Rights for Blacks

-Economic Justice for All

- Thinking Continued to evolve

Economic Concerns Next Slide Show