MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
A SURVIVOR
By: Justin
Conway
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run
then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but
whatever you do you have to keep
moving forward.”
CHILDHOOD
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was
named after his dad, Revered Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin grew up in the “William’s House” which was named after his
grandfather, Reverend A.D. Williams. The reverend was a pastor at the Ebenezer
Baptist Church. Which was easy to access because of his new home.
Martin was also not an only child he grew up with a sister older than him
and a younger brother.
Their family quickly learned the nasty and harsh reality of racial
discrimination and segregation of the south United States.
MLK’s House
Ebenezer Baptist Church
EDUCATION
Martin went to Booker T. Washington High School.
He skipped the 9th and 12th grades and proceeded to Morehouse
College at 15 without graduating high school. In 1948 he graduated
from Morehouse College with a Bachelor’s Degree in sociology. Later
on he enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary. Which is in Chester,
Pennsylvania. He graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1951.
Crozer Theological Seminary
Morehouse College
SIBLINGS
Alfred Daniel Williams King
Born July 30, 1930-Died July 21, 1969 (Age 39)
He was a civil rights activist and a Baptist. And the younger
brother of the famous Martin Luther King Jr.
Christine King Farris
Born September 11, 1927 (Age 86)
She is the only living, and the oldest sibling of Martin Luther
King Jr.
WIFE
Coretta Scott King was born in Heiberger, Alabama
on April 27, 1927-Died January 30, 2006. She is the
child of Obadiah Scott, and Bernice McMurray Scott.
At an early age she was exposed to the segregated
life of the southern.
Coretta Scott King
CHILDREN
Bernice Albertine
King
Born March 28, 1963.
Bernice Albertine King
is an American Baptist
minister. She is the
second daughter and
youngest child of civil
rights leaders Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Coretta Scott
King.
Dexter Scott King
Born January 30,
1961. Dexter Scott
King is the second
son of civil rights
leaders Martin
Luther King, Jr.
and Coretta Scott
King.
Martin Luther
King III
Yolanda King
Born October 23, 1957.
Martin Luther King III is
an American human
rights advocate and
community activist. He
is the eldest son and
oldest living child of
civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Coretta Scott
King.
Born November 17,
1955-Died May 15,
2007 Yolanda
Denise King was the
first-born child of
Coretta Scott King
and civil rights
leader Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
In 1955 on a very cold December day in Montgomery, Alabama. A lady
named Rosa Parks was coming home from her job on a bus sitting in the
back. A white man told her to get up from her seat so he can sit there. She
had said no, and moments later she was arrested. The blacks citizens of
Montgomery learned about her arrest, and it made them very angry. They
created a boycott where the wont ride the buses until they could sit
anywhere they wanted. And they chose Martin as the leader. For a long
381 days, the boycott walked everywhere they had to go. Martin walked
with them and prayed with them all the way until they could sit anywhere
they wanted. Martin said this famous quote: “When the history book are
written someone will say there lived black people who had the courage to
stand up for their rights.”
The bus Rosa Parks was riding in
when she was arrested
Rosa Parks
“I HAVE A DREAM”
August 28, 1963 is when King performed his “I have a dream”
speech. Some famous line from that speech are: "I have a
dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by
the content of their character. I have a dream today!“. “Instead
of ignoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro
people a bad check, a check that has come back marked,
“insufficient funds”.
View from
Lincoln
Memorial to
Washington
Monument
Martin Luther King
delivering his
famous “I have a
dream” speech.
NOBEL PEACE
In 1964 Dr. King was awarded a Nobel Peace prize.
At the age of 35, Martin Luther King Jr., was the
youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace
Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced
that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to
the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
SURVIVOR?
• Dr. King wasn’t exactly a survivor but he paved the
concrete path for the blacks to survive.
• After ten years of protests the lawmakers in
Washington voted to end segregation. All of the
WHITE ONLY signs came in the South.
• Today, if Dr. King didn’t fight for the Black
Americans freedom, I wouldn’t be sitting here
making this presentation today.
• He devoted his life just to be free, and to help
others.
• So is he a survivor? I think yes.
THE END
WORKS CITED
• Rappaport, D. (2001). Martin's Big Words. New York
City: Writers House, Inc.
• Martin Luther King Jr. - Biographical". Nobelprize.org.
Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 19 Sep 2013.
<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/la
ureates/1964/king-bio.html>
• Coretta Scott King. (1996-2013). Retrieved
September 19, 2013, from Academy of
Achievement:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin1b
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