When he was six years old he was told that he couldn't go to the same school as his friends becasue he was black and they were white.
Three of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s four children, Martin Luther King, III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice Albertine King, are still living. One of his children, Yolanda Denise King, died on May 15, 2007.
Marin Luther married Katharina Bora in 1525. They had six children:Magdalena LutherMargarete KunheimPaul LutherElisabeth LutherHans LutherMartin Luther
hans and margrette luther had 2 girls and 1 son named martin luther
Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray in 1968. Dr. King was standing on a balcony at the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, TN when he was shot. I believe he was in Memphis to help mediate a strike by city workers.
Martin Luther King Jr. was part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He traveled over six million miles and gave over 25 hundred speeches where ever there was inequality, injustice, protest and action. He was arrested of about 20 times and was assaulted at least 4 times.He was awarded 5 honorary degrees, named man of the year by Time magazine in 1963 and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At 35 years old he was the youngest man to receive a Noble Peace Prize and donated the prize money of $54,123 to the civil rights movement. In the evening of April 4, 1968 he was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee where he was to lead a protest march with striking garbage workers in that city.
Martin Luther King Jr. traveled over six million miles and spoke about twenty-five hundred times.
Martin Luther King spoke along with Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, John Lewis and James L Farmer Jr. They were known as the 'Big Six' at the Lincoln Memorial march.
Three of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s four children, Martin Luther King, III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice Albertine King, are still living. One of his children, Yolanda Denise King, died on May 15, 2007.
Marin Luther married Katharina Bora in 1525. They had six children:Magdalena LutherMargarete KunheimPaul LutherElisabeth LutherHans LutherMartin Luther
hans and margrette luther had 2 girls and 1 son named martin luther
Dr. King was five feet six and a half inches tall. Because of his big heart, huge talent and larger than life presence, people are often surprised to learn of his actual height.
Luther married Katherine von Bora, and ex-nun, on June 13, 1525. They had six children.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray in 1968. Dr. King was standing on a balcony at the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, TN when he was shot. I believe he was in Memphis to help mediate a strike by city workers.
Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama. She attended Lincoln Normal School on a school bus driven by her mother. After graduating high school she attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Rev. King organized or was a key organizer in different marches and protests. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which he delivered one of his famous speeches ('I have a Dream') - was on August 28, 1963. The march was initiated by A. Phillip Randolph. King was part of the "Big Six' representatives of movements organizing the march. It failed to start on time because its leaders were meeting with members of Congress. However, the hundreds of thousands of people attending started to walk without them from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
Birmingham Six happened in 1975.
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