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The Life o f M a r t i n L u t h e r K i n g J r
1. Moilin Luther King, Jr in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929.
2. HP a minister in the church, just like his father.
3. The iavvs in many of the southern staíes fair to African Americans.
4. The Aíiican Americans to vote, so thcy change the laws of these
st.nes.
5. 11 pcssible for one person alone to change this. Martin Luther King, Jr
a iot of powerful ipeeches and people aiw.iys to him.
S. H? people, "M¿iny people workinj together can chc^nge things.'
7. Kví books and bl;ick people rcgister to vote. In one of his
speeches he "Use love, noT violence."
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1 O. When he out of jail, he to make speeches.
11-He..... plenty of enemies.
1 2 . They his house and schools and churches.
1 3 . In August 1963 more than 200,000 people along the streets of Washington D.C.,
and about the lack of equal rights in America.
1 -4. It was the 'March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom'.
1 5 . Thirty special trains and tv^o thousand speciai buses people to Washington.
1 6 . An 82-year-old man all the way from Ohio on his bike and another man roller-
all the way from Ohio. Tweive civil rights workers from Brookiyn all the way.
1 7. 170,000 people his famous speech when he toid them:
" The Negro Uves on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity
. .. I have a dream that one day this nation wilí. . . Uve out the true meaning of its creed:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
18. In 1964 Ma.-lin Luther King, Jr one of the wodd's greatest honors, the Nobel Peace Pnze.
1 9. He to improve the lives of poor people all over America: black, white, '
American Indian, Mexican, and he against the war in Vietnam. -v
2 0 . On April 4. 1S68, he a march in Memphis, Tennessee, for poor workers.
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One of the most important things he said in his "I have a dream" speech was: