Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. In 1954 he became the minister of a small
Negro Church in Montogomery. Here he carried out his first non-violent protest against racial
discrimination.

One day, in December 1, 1955 a black woman, Rosa Parks, refused to seat a white man in his seat in
bus and she was arrested.

In his short lifetime, Martin Luther King, was arrested and many times and the house was bombed.

In 1964 Congress passed the Civil Right Act and in the same year King was awarded the Noble Peace
Prize.

In 1968 King started another battle because blacks lived in ghettos.

On 3 April 1968, King delivered a speech in which he said he had ‘’ been to the mountain top and
seen the promised Land’’.

The following day, King was short dead in Memphis.

I have a dream than my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by
the colour of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream than
one day down in Alabama little black's boys and little white girls will join hands with little white girls
as sister and brothers... I have a dream today! we will work together, pray together, go to jail
together knowing than we will be free on day...