1. MARTIN LUTHER KING
 The Father Of
Civil Rights

2. Racial Segregation
 The Racial Segregation
was the separation of
humans into racial
groups in daily life.
 This was used in cases
such as going to the
school, eating in a
restaurant, etc.

3. Rosa Parks's Case
 Rosa's case is very
famous.
 Rosa was sitting in a
bus, and she didn't
left her seat to a
white man. She was
arrested.

4. MLK's Parents
 His parent was Martin
Luther King Sr. He was
a Baptist pastor,
missionary, and a leader
in the American Civil
rights Movement.
 His mother was Alberta
Williams King. She
played an important role
in the affairs of the
Ebenezer Baptist Church

5. Birth of MLK
 He was born in Atlanta,
th
the 15 of January of
1929.
 His legal name at birth
was “Michael King”.
 His father changed his
name to “Martin
Luther”

6. Martin Luther King's early life.
 He studied in the
Booker T
Washington High
School.
 Later, he went to the
Morehouse school.
 He was an excellent
student.

7. University
 He entered in the
Morehouse School,
at the age of 15th.
 In 1948, he graduated
from Morehouse with
a bachelor of Arts in
sociology.
 He finished his studies
in 1854.

8. Baptist Minister
 MLK became a Baptist
Minister, because his
father was a Baptist
Minister.
 His father defend social
rights, and was an
early civil rights
leader befores his son
did the same thing.

9. MLK's Speeches.
 MLK did some
speeches during his
career.
 Probably. the most
famous speech of
MLK is “I have a
dream”.
 He wanted an equality
between the black
and the white people.

10. Gandhi ­ MLK
 MLK studied the
philosophy of
Gandhi, in 1950.
 He wanted to know the
meaning of
“satyagraha”, that
means “love­force”.
 He was very interested
in his ideas.

11. “I have a dream”
 This is the most
important speech of
MLK.
 It was in 1963, and he
said that he had a
dream, the equality
between the white
and the black people.
 It was a very important
step for the Civil
Rights in the U.S.A.

12. MLK's arrest
 On April 12th 1963,
Martin Luther King Jr
was arrested following a
nonviolent protest
demonstrating against
segregation in
Birmingham Alabama.
 Police arrested King for
demonstrating without a
permit and placed him in
the Birmingham City
Jail for 11 days.

13. Enemies
 Martin Luther King
had a lot of enemies
too.
 His enemies were
mainly white people.
 He was killed by an
enemie, called James
Earl Ray.

14. Dead
 He was killed in
Memphis, Tennessee,
the 4th of april 1968.
 He was assassinated
after the day of his
famous speech “I've
been to the mountain
top”.
 His assassin was James
Earl Ray.

15. James Earl Ray
 He was a white man,
that killed Martin
Luther King.
 He tried to escape, but
he was arrested in an
airport of London.
 He died in the prison,
because of a disease.

16. Nobel Prize
 The 14th of october, Martin
Luther King won the
Nobel Price for Peace.
 Dr. King said that “every
penny” of the prize
money would be given
to the civil rights
movements.
 “I am glad people of other
nations are concerned
with our problems here.

17. After MLK
 After news of King's
death, riots erupted
almost immediately
throughout the
country.
 Detroit, Chicago,
Hartford, Conn, and
other cities were
gripped with
violence and fires.

18. “I have a Dream”
 This is one of the most
important speeches
of MLK.
 He said that he dreamt
with an equality of
rights between the
white people and the
black people.
th
 This happened the 28
of August of 1963.

19. Information found in:
- Wikipedia.
- Wikispaces.
- Another web pages.

20. CREDITS
Alejandro Torres 4ºB
Joaquín Rodríguez 4ºB
Daniel Flores 4ºB