1. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929-1968
By Lorena Sarah Broccanello

2. My presentation:
1. Who was Martin (biography)
2. What he did (early years)
3. What he did (later years)
4. His most famous speech: I have a dream
5. legacy

3. HIS HISTORY
 Civil right act 1964
 Youngest person to receive
nobel peace prize 1964
 Voting right act 1965
 Also know for his phylosophy
and non-violent methods

4. Michael Luther King, Jr. was
born on January 15th
• Education in a segregated public school in
Georgia
• After he entered in Morehouse college at the
age of 15
• 1948: graduated with bachelor of arts in
sociology
• 1951 graduated with bachelor of divinity at
Crozer Theological Seminary in Pensylvania
• 1955 completed his studies in Sistematic
Theology at Boston University

5. King married
Coretta Scott on
June 18, 1953.

6. King began his
ministry in 1954 as
the pastor of Dexter
Avenue Baptist
Church in
Montgomery,
Alabama.
Here he started fighting
civil right for members
of his race

7. His most famous speech
“I have a dream”. King
spokes to 250,000 civil
rights supporters on 28
August, 1963.
He called for racial
equality and the end of
discrimination.
It was a defining moment of
American Civil Right
Movement.

8. On April 4, 1968, while
standing on a balcony at the
Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
King was assassinated by
James Earl Ray.

9. In his honor the
President Ronal
Regan decided for a
National Holiday
started on January
20, 1986.

10. HIS MAIN LEGACY:
• After his death the congress passed Civil Right Act
• Influenced Civil Right Movement in South Africa
• His quality as orator convince black people to
overcome oppressive system
• Inspired million people in the world

11. Thank you!