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Biography
1929
Martin Luther King was born on
January 15th in Atlanta, Georgia
to schoolteacher Alberta King
and Baptist minister Michael Luther
King. He spent his boyhood in
Sweet Auburn district.
1953
On June 18th King
married Coretta Scott
in Marion, Alabama. They had four
children : Yolanda Denise (b.
1955), Martin Luther King III
(b. 1957), Dexter (b. 1961), Bernice
Albertine (b. 1963).
1955
In a bus
boycott was launched
in Montgomery, Alabama, after
an African-American woman, Rosa
Parks, was arrested on
December 1st for refusing to give
up her seat to a white person.
1956
On December 21st
after more than a year of boycotting
the buses and a legal fight, the
Montgomery buses desegregate.
1959
King visited India. He greatly
admired Mohandas K. Gandhi, and
thanked Gandhi's passive resistance
techniques for his civil-rights
successes.
1962
King meets with
President John F. Kennedy to urge
support for civil rights.
1963
King led protests
in Birmingham for desegregated
department store facilities, and
fair hiring.
In April he was arrested after
demonstrating in defiance of a
court order. He wrote "Letter
From Birmingham Jail" : it
became a classic of the civil-rights
movement.
On August 28th
250,000 civil-rights supporters
attended the March on
Washington. At the Lincoln
Memorial, King delivers the famous
"I have a dream"
speech.
1964
On December 10th
he won the Nobel Peace
Prize.
On July 2nd President
Johnson signed the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
1968
On April 4th M.L.
King is assassinated
in Memphis, Tennessee, by James
Earl Ray. Violence spread
in over 100 cities.
1986
January
20th is the first
national celebration
of King's birthday as a holiday.
2006
On January Coretta Scott, M.L.
King's wife, died.
MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE
"I have a dream" video extract
"I have a
dream" complete speech 16
mn
"I have a
dream" extract speech 63
sec
videos historychannel.com
video on the civil
rights brainpop.com
ACTIVITIES
"I have a
dream" speech script
"I have a
dream" speech
photo académie
Paris
teacher's notes
académie
Paris
webquest académie
Paris
strip cartoon about MLK's life
golden-legacy.com
vocabulary quiz
teach-nology.com
Quizzes
quiz 01
quizlab.com
quiz 02
quizlab.com
quiz 03
quizlab.com
Quizzes
Answer Keys
quiz answer key
01 quizlab.com
quiz answer key
02 quizlab.com
quiz answer key
03 quizlab.com
PICTURES
1955 - Rosa Parks
1960 Nobel Peace
Prize
1963 Washington March
1963 Washington March
1963 Washington March
1966 Gandhi portrait
1968 MLK's family at his funeral
1968 MLK funeral
SELECTION of SITES
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civil rights
seattletimes.nwsource.com
African-American
history seattletimes.nwsource.com
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