Martin Luther King

Sunday, February 8, 2009

More & More about Dr. MLK

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Student Worksheet

1. When and where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
What was his father's occupation? What was his mother's occupation?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/

2. What was Martin's first name originally?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/biography.html

3. Was King a good student in school?
What were 3 hobbies he enjoyed?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/

4. In 1948, King graduated from what college in Georgia?
In 1951, he received a B.D. from what Seminary in Chester, Pa.?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/timeline.html

5. How many children did Martin Luther King, Jr. have?
What was his wife's name?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/timeline.html

7. When did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. become active in the movement for civil rights and racial equality ?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK

8. What famous speech did King deliver on August 28, 1963?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=speech&topic=0
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm (text and audio)

9. Read "A Teeny Tiny Book About Martin Luther King, Jr.".
What was King's occupation in Montgomery, Alabama?
King believed that __________ should be treated equally under the law.
What special award did he win in 1964?
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6459/mlk.html

10. What was Dr. Martin Luther King's dream for the world?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=mlk&topic=0

11. When and where was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=mlk&topic=0

12. When is the Martin Luther King Holiday celebrated every year?
Scroll to the last paragraph on this web site to find the answer!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=mlk&topic=0

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Who Is MLK?

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a great man who worked for racial equality and civil rights in the United States of America. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin had a brother, Alfred, and a sister, Christine. 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; he skipped grades in both elementary school and high school . He enjoyed reading books, singing, riding a bicycle, and playing football and baseball. Martin entered Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was only 15 years old.

Martin experienced racism early in life. He decided to do to something to make the world a better and fairer place.

After graduating from college and getting married, Dr. King became a minister and moved to Alabama.

During the 1950's, 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. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

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, the month in which he was born. August 28, the anniversary of Dr. King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech, is called "Dream Day."

Martin Luther King

"When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every State and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: ‘Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.'"
~Martin Luther King, Jr., Lincoln Memorial, 1963