Martin Luther King Jr. and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

Rosemary SharpeJanuary 21, 2013

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Vocabulary

• Nonviolent resistance• Discrimination• Protest• Segregation• Racism• Boycott• Sit-in

Jim Crow Laws Separate water fountains for blacks and whites

Greensboro Sit-Ins Four young men from North Carolina A&T State University organize a sit-in at the Woolworth's whites-only lunch counter.

Montgomery Bus BoycottRosa Parks, a black woman, refused to go to the back of the bus and give up her seat for a white person. She was arrested and put in jail. In response to her arrest, black community leaders led by Martin Luther King, Jr. organize a bus boycott, forcing Montgomery to integrate their bus system. It was an example of a successful nonviolent resistance.

Police violence against a teenager

Police violence on nonviolent protestors

The Little Rock NineNine teenagers volunteered to be the first black students attend the all-white school. On Sept. 4, 1957, the Arkansas National Guard, under the order of Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus, blocked nine black students from entering Little Rock Central High School.

MLK, Jr.’s BiographyMartin Luther King, Jr. was a great man who worked for racial equality in the United States. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Both his father and grandfather were ministers. His mother was a schoolteacher who taught him how to read before he went to school. Young Martin was an excellent student in school.

After graduating from college and getting married, Dr. King became a minister and moved to Alabama. During the 1950s and 60s, Dr. King became active in the movement for civil rights and racial equality. He participated in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott and many other peaceful demonstrations that protested the unfair treatment of African-Americans. In 1964, at 35 years old, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Commemorating the life of a tremendously important leader, we celebrate Martin Luther King Day each year in January. He is the only non-president to have a national holiday in his honor.

Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to a crowd of 250,000 people at the March on Washington

“I Have a Dream”August 28, 1963

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

http://www.schooltube.com/video/bcef4580516f12afcad4/

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Funeral

President Obama’s 2nd Inauguration Day is today

What are your dreams?• Dreams for myself:I have a dream that I will make many friends this year in Guatemala. I have a dream that I will teach many students, and also learn many new things. • Dreams for my community:• Dreams for the world:I have a dream that one day every child in this world will have the opportunity to get an education. I have a dream that there will be an end to war and violence and that we all will leave in peace. I have a dream that no one will have to go hungry. I have a dream today!

http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Dream1.htm