Martin Luther King Jr.Malcolm XRosa Parks

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Martin Luther King Jr.Motivations.• He was motivated by his

desire to see all people treated equal without discriminatory practices. King saw an injustice in America, and his dedication to the cause grew when he had children and envisioned a race-free future for them.

Martin Luther King Jr.Significant moments.• On december 5, 1955 he is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement

Association, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.• In 1957, King formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to sight

segregation and achieve civil rights.• On may 17, 1957, he speaks to a crowd of 15000 people in Washington D. C.• In 1958, Kings first book, Stride Toward Freedom, was published.• In 1963, during the 11 days he spent in jail, MLK wrote his famous Letter from

Birmingham Jail.• On May 10, 1963, the Birmingham agreement is announced. The stores, restaurants

and schools will be designed gated, hiring of black people implemented, cold charges cropped.

• At the march of Washington, King makes his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech.• MLK is awarded with the Nobel Peace price on december 10, 1964.• On April 4, 1968, MLK is fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the place he

was staying in Tennesee.

Martin Luther King Jr.Achievements.• Nobel Peace price (1964).• Time’s Person of the year (1963).• Spingarm medal (1957).• Presidential medal of freedom

(1977).• Congressional Gold medal (2004).• Grammy hall of fame (2012).• March on Washington (1963).• Montgomery bus boycott (1955).• Southern Christian Leadership

Conference (1957).• Albany movement (1961).• Birmingham campaign (1960-

1964).

Speeches.• “A realistic look at the question of

progress in the area of race relation”

• “Give us the ballot”• “If the negro wins, labor wins”• “The ‘Great march on Detroit’

speech”• “I have a dream”• “We shall overcome”• “The other America”• “The quest for peace and justice”

Malcolm X• Malcolm X was born on may

19, 1925. He was a prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the nation of Klam grew from 400 members, at the time he was released from prison in 1952, to 40,000 members in the 1960, he exhausted blacks to shakles of racism by any means necessary, even with violence. He was assesinated on the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan on february 21, 1965.

Malcolm XMotivations.• When he was little, his family

suffered harrashments and attacks from white groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

• A racist man burned Malcolm’s house and killed his mother; white policemen and firemen refused to do something.

• He decided to abandon school after a teacher said to him that he couldn’t be a lawyer but a carpenter.

Achievements.• In 1953 he was named minister

at NOI’s Boston mask. Temple No. 11.

• On 1965 his autobiography was published.

Speeches.• “Black man’s history”• “The black revolution”• “God’s judgement of white

America”• “The ballot or the bullet”• “After the bombing”

Rosa Parks• She was born on february 4,

1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama and died on october 24, 2005, in Detroit. Rosa was an African American civil rights activist who’s refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. She is called today "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement”.

Rosa ParksMotivations.• Rosa Parks was an innovator

and idealist person at heart; she was a freedom-loving, strong-willed, independent-minded individual that insisted upon living her own life as she saw fair, even if it meant ignoring popular belief and tradition.

Achievements.• Montgomery Bus Boycott.• Spingarn Medal (1979 by the

NAACP)• Martin Luther King Jr. Award

(1980 by the NAACP)• Presidential Medal of

Freedom.• Congressional Gold Medal

(1999)• Selected to meet Nelson

Mandela on his release from prison (1994)

• Golden Plate Award (1995)

Sources

• http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715#synopsis

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks• http://rosaparksfacts.com/rosa-parks-awards-

achievements/

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