All about Martin Luther King Jr.

1. (Atlanta, 15 de enero de 1929 –
Memphis 4 de abril de 1968)

2. Edgar Andreé Toledo Torres
Vanessa García Menchú

3. Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. • Martin Luther King Jr,
was an American
clergyman, activist, and
leader in the African-
American Civil Rights
Movement. He is best
known for his role in the
advancement of civil rights
using nonviolent civil
disobedience.

5. • King has become a national
icon in the history
of American progressivism.
King became a civil rights
activist early in his career.
He led the 1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott
and helped found the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference in
1957, serving as its first
president.

6. • King stated that black Americans, as well
as other disadvantaged Americans, should
be compensated for historical wrongs. In
an interview conducted for Playboy in
1965, he said that granting black
Americans only equality could not
realistically close the economic gap
between them and whites.

7. • Inspired by Mahatma
Gandhi's success with non-
violent activism, King had
"for a long time wanted to
take a trip to India". With
assistance from the Quaker
group the American Friends
Service Committee, he was
able to make the journey in
April 1959.

8. • Another influence for King's
non-violent method was
Thoreau's essay On Civil
Disobedience, which King
read in his student days
influenced by the idea of
refusing to cooperate with
an evil system

9. • Although King never
publicly supported a
political party or candidate
for president, in a letter to a
civil rights supporter in
October 1956 he said that
he was undecided as to
whether he would vote for
Adlai Stevenson.

10. • March on Washington,
1963 was one of the
biggest steps towards
improvement of the life of
African Americans, also
called, Black Americans
who were treated as
downtrodden by the White
Americans.

11. • The Montgomery Bus
Boycott, 1955 started in
December in the year 1955.
It was indeed a very crucial
step towards the betterment
of “blacks. "The main and
the crucial role in the entire
Montgomery Bus Boycott,
1955 was initiated by Rosa
Parks.

12. • The boycott was organized
for 5th December 1955,
Monday. The organization
named Montgomery
improvement Association
was created and King was
the President of this
association.

13. • Rosa Parks is primarily
seen as the main
protagonist of the
Montgomery Bus Boycott,
1955. Most of the people
believe that the boycott
movement was not pre-
planned and it just occurred
immediately. Rosa Parks
had not pre-planned to
refuse to get down of the
bus and did so in order to
rest her tiring feet after the
day long work.

14. • On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was
arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and
planned by Nixon and led by King, soon
followed. The boycott lasted for 385 days,
and the situation became so tense that
King's house was bombed.

15. • King was arrested during
this campaign, which
concluded with a United
States District Court ruling
in Browder v. Gayle that
ended racial segregation on
all Montgomery public
buses.

16. • Martin Luther King Jr.
was the person who has
spent his whole life in
struggling for Civil Rights of
black people. He was of the
view that the objective of
any protest can be better
achieved through peaceful
means rather than
shedding blood of people

17. • King and the SCLC were
driving forces behind
intense demonstrations in
St. Augustine, Florida, in
1964. The movement
marched nightly through the
city and suffered violent
attacks from white
supremacists. Hundreds of
the marchers were arrested
and jailed.

18. • In April 1963, the SCLC
began a campaign against
racial segregation and
economic injustice in
Birmingham, Alabama. The
campaign used nonviolent
but intentionally
confrontational tactics,
developed in part by Rev.

19. • King, representing the
SCLC, was among the
leaders of the so-called
"Big Six" civil rights
organizations who were
instrumental in the
organization of the March
on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom, which took
place on August 28, 1963.

20. • Acting on James Bevel's
call for a march from Selma
to Montgomery, King,
Bevel, and the SCLC, in
partial collaboration with
SNCC, attempted to
organize the march to the
state's capital. The first
attempt to march on March
7, 1965, was aborted
because of mob and police
violence against the
demonstrators.

21. • King's main legacy was to secure progress
on civil rights in the U.S. Just days after
King's assassination, Congress passed the
Civil Rights Act of 1968.Title VIII of the Act,
commonly known as the Fair Housing Act,
prohibited discrimination in housing and
housing-related transactions on the basis
of race, religion, or national origin later
expanded to include sex, familial status,
and disability.

22. • Martin Luther King Jr. was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
for his work on behalf of racial
equality and civil rights in 1964.
King is remembered as one of
the greatest leaders and heroes
of American history, and in the
modern history of nonviolence.
He was posthumously awarded
the Presidential Medal of
Freedom by Jimmy Carter in
1977 and the Congressional
Gold Medal of the United States
in 2004. Since 1986, the Martin
Luther King Day is a holiday in
the United States.

23. • I accept the Nobel Prize for
Peace at a moment when
twenty two million Negroes
of the United States of
America are engaged in a
creative battle to end the
long night of racial injustice.
I accept this award in
behalf of a civil rights
movement which is moving
with determination and a
majestic scorn for risk and
danger to establish a reign
of freedom and a rule of
justice.

24. • Martin Luther King Jr.
Capital Memorial would be
the most befitting homage
to the greatest champion of
human rights movement.
The Capital Memorial is the
best way to make the
dream and ideology
propagate among the
people of the present age

25. • On April 4, 1968 Martin
Luther King was killed by a
white segregationist on the
balcony of the Lorraine Motel
in Memphis His last words on
that balcony were directed to
musician Ben Branch, who
was going to perform that
night at a public meeting
would attend Martin Luther,
His fanatical services in the
field of Human Rights were
given recognition even after
his death and many awards
or prizes were showered on
him posthumously.

26. • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
is celebrated worldwide in
order to pay tribute to his
hard work in the field of
Civil Rights and Human
Rights. In United States
celebrate it as a federal
holiday on every third
Monday of every January
which is nearby 15 January
the day on which this
famous personality opened
his eyes.