Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream

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Martin Luther King Jr.I Have a Dream

• By Marc Dickerson
• January 2003

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Early Life - 1929

• January 15, 1929, Michael Luther King Jr., later
  renamed Martin, was born to school teacher
  Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther
  King.

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Early Life

• Martin Luther King, Jr., was the first son and
  second child born.
• Other children born to the Kings were Christine
  King Farris and the late Reverend Alfred Daniel
  Williams King.

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Early Life

• Here is a picture of young Dr. Martin Luther
  King Jr.

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Early Life

• They grew up at the family home, 501 Auburn
  Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
• Here, "M.L." learned about family and Christian
  love.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. began his education at
  the Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta,
  Georgia.
• Following Yonge School, he was enrolled in David
  T. Howard Elementary School.
• He also attended the Atlanta University
  Laboratory School and Booker T. Washington High
  School.

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Middle Years - 1944

• Having skipped both the ninth and twelfth grades,
  Dr. King entered Morehouse at the age of fifteen.

• King enrolled in Morehouse College in Atlanta in
  1944.
• Received his bachelor's degree in 1948.

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Middle Years

• King wasn't planning to enter the ministry, but
  then he met Dr. Benjamin Mays, a scholar whose
  manner and bearing convinced him that a religious
  career could be intellectually satisfying as well

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Middle Years 1948-1953

• King attended Crozer Theological Seminary in
  Chester, Pa., winning the Plafker Award as the
  outstanding student of the graduating class, and
  the J. Lewis Crozer Fellowship as well.
• King completed the coursework for his doctorate
  degree in 1953, and was granted the degree two
  years later upon completion of his dissertation.

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Middle Years - 1951

• In September of 1951, Martin Luther King began
  doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston
  University. He also studied at Harvard
  University.
• Ph.D. degree from Boston, a Doctorate of
  Philosophy in Systematic Theology, was awarded on
  June 5, 1955.

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Adult Years

• June 18, 1953, King marries Coretta Scott in
  Marion, Ala.. They will have four children
  Yolanda Denise (b.1955), Martin Luther King III
  (b.1957), Dexter (b.1961), Bernice Albertine
  (b.1963).

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Adult Years - 1954

• September 1 King begins his pastorate at Dexter
  Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
• Here, he made his first mark on the civil-rights
  movement, by mobilizing the black community
  during a 382-day boycott of the city's bus lines.

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Adult Years 1958-1961

• 1958 Kings first book Stride Toward Freedom The
  Montgomery Story is published.
• 1961 King meets with President John F. Kennedy
  and urges him to issue a second Emancipation
  Proclamation to eliminate racial segregation.

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Adult Years 1968

• Death came for King on April 4, 1968, on the
  balcony of the black-owned Lorraine Hotel just
  off Beale Street. While standing outside with
  Jesse Jackson and Ralph Abernathy, King was shot
  in the neck by a rifle bullet. His death caused a
  wave of violence in major cities across the
  country.

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I Have a Dream

• EncouragementI Have a DreamThe famous speech
  delivered in 1963 to more than 200,000
  civil-rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in
  Washington, D.C.

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Summary

• He was a husband, a father, a preacher-and the
  preeminent leader of a movement that continues to
  transform America and the world. Martin Luther
  King, Jr., was one of the twentieth century's
  most influential men and lived one of its most
  extraordinary lives.

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Closing

• However, King's legacy has lived on. In 1969, his
  widow, Coretta Scott King, organized the Martin
  Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social
  Change. Today it stands next to his beloved
  Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His birthday,
  Jan. 15, is a national holiday, celebrated each
  year with educational programs, artistic
  displays, and concerts throughout the United
  States. The Lorraine Hotel where he was shot is
  now the National Civil Rights Museum.