Martin Luther King (1929-1968)

Martin Luther King started fighting for the human

rights when a member of his church was arrested

for not giving her seat to a white person on a bus.

In 1957, he founded and was president of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (a

pacifist organization of civil rights).

In 1963, he was one of the organizers of the

peaceful march. In the same year he gave his

most famous and inspiring speech “I have a

dream”.

In 1964, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. Some

months later when he visited Memphis,

Tennessee, to support a strike, he was murdered

by a fanatic white, but the struggle was not over.

In our opinion, this man is an example to all of us,

because despite knowing that he could be killed

at any time, he never gave up fighting. If by his

initiative he managed to make the world a better

place, we can all do it, we just need to have

willpower and determination.

Ana Rita

Joana Guido 11ºB

Sara Oliveira