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Martin Luther King Junior
- Jan 15th 1929 - April 4th 1968
- Civil Rights Activist
- No violence: even when police
and others were violent
towards the protestors
- Led marches
and peaceful
protests
- Opposed to Vietnam war
- President of Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference
- helped poor not just blacks and whites
- Led the Bus Boycott in
Montgomery Alabama which
was successful in intergrating
buses
- started through
Rosa Parks not
letting white man
take her seat
- Belief of non violence inspired by Gandhi and by visit to New Delhi
- Youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
- Experience of Racism as a
child: shop assistant could not
serve them at the seats they
were sitting because of colour
of skin, the man and child
walked out
- I have a Dream Speech: August 28th
1963 at Lincoln Memorial
- 200 000
gathered
- failed in his drive against
racial discrimination in
Chicago
- Futile in battle against
desegregation in Public Parks in
Albany
- Seeked Help janitors,
hospital workers and pacifist
intellectuals: unsuccesful
- House bombed by Klu Klux Klan in 1964
- Arrested for first time in 1964
through Bus Protests
- Birmingham Alabama protests for fair hiring and dapartment store desegration, when savage police response yet Martin Luther King still continued with non violence
- they know how to react to violence,
but not non-violence
- Life
- Born at Atlanta Georgia
- Born into Southern, Black Religious Family
- he moved to Alabama Montgomery
- South of US more
Racist than the North
- Father was a minister, than Martin
became a minister too in 1950's
- Married Coretta in 1953 and had children
- Assassinated in Memphis
on a hotel balcony by a
Sniper.
- died a martyr
- MLKJ was a christian and believed in equality, love and peace
- his views and words
still ring true today:
show importance of
love and peace and
how to treat everyone
- teach, peace, love
and equality
throughout the world.
- Believed in justice and
teaches us still today non
violence and how to steer the
world away form harm
- granting of freedom
- Christian Beliefs
- Love thy Neighbor
- Jesus did not discriminate
against anyone: he even
healed a Roman girl, who
was different race, status
and religion
- Commandment:
do not kill
- "if someone hits your
right cheek, show him
your left" - Bible
- God accepts all, space in
heaven for all types of people
- Blessed are the
peacemakers,
they are the sons
of God
- "all who live by the sword, perish by the sword"