Transcript Martin Luther King Jr. - Thomas Jefferson Middle School

Martin Luther King Jr.
By: Alex Scharnhorst
Leo Brokus
Family
• Father was a Baptist minister
• Married Coretta Scott King
• Had 2 sons and 2 daughters
Born
• January 15, 1929
• Birth name Michael Luther King
Jr.
• Born in Atlanta, GA
Death
• Assassinated on April 4, 1968 in
Memphis, Tennessee
Education
• Skipped grades in elementary
and high school
• At age 15 entered Morehouse
College in Atlanta, GA
• Crozer Theological Seminary in
1951
• PHD in 1955
Career
• 1954 minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist
church Montgomery, Al
• 1955 leads bus boycott in Montgomery, Al
• 1957 helped found Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
• 1960 joins his father as co-pastor
• 1963 arrested and jailed
• March on Washington “I have a dream”
speech
• 1964 received Nobel Peace Prize
Impact on U.S. history
• Helped the Civil rights
movement
• Nonviolent protests
• Encouraged African Americans
to vote and show that we are
not a divided country
• Inspires the country still today
Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.