Martin Luther King A short biography

TASK:

Complete with the elements at the bottom

Martin Luther King Junior

was born in January 1929 in ________________________ ,

_______________, in the _______________ of the USA. His _______________ was a

minister in the _______________ church. At only 15, he __________________________
Morehouse ____________________ .
At _______________, he became a minister like his father. He went to Boston University for a
doctorate in _______________ . He married ____________ ____________ in 1953, then
started _______________ in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1955, in Montgomery, a _______________ woman _____________________________
Rosa Parks was arrested because she was sitting in the front of a bus , where blacks were
not_________________________
organized

to sit .

_______________

of

MLK and other__________________________

the

buses:

it

was

the

start

of

the

________________________________________ movement.
After one year of boycott, the US _____________________ declared bus _______________
was illegal.
In _______________ King became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
to fight for__________________________. He was very _________ working for civil rights,
giving_______________________________,
travelling_______________________
prison_____________________________

signing

organizing
.

In

August

sit-ins
1963,

books,
and

going

to

King

organized

_______________ in Washington to ____________________________________the 100

anniversary

of

the

end

of

_______________

At

the

foot

of

the

th

Lincoln

___________________________ , he gave the greatest speech of his caree : I Have a

Dream . In November 1963, US President _______________ _______________ was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
In July 1964, President _______________ signed the Civil Rights Act. In October 1964, at
the age of 35, Dr Martin Luther King Jr

was _______________________________

the

Nobel Peace Prize after fighting so hard for ___________________________ between black
people and white people. In 1966, more _______________________________ movements
emerge

with

people

like

the

Black

Panthers

and

Malcolm

X.

The

slogan

_______________________________ is created.
On

April

th

1968,

the

man

who

had

always

insisted

on

the

need

for

____________________________ , the charismatic ___________________ of the civil rights

movement was shot dead in Memphis, __________________________. Kings death at the
age of 39 provoked terrible _______________ in the country. On his tomb was written:
_________________________________ . The anniversary of his death is now a national
___________________________.
17 / 1957 / Baptist / Black Power / black / boycott / busy / civil rights / College
/

Coretta Scott / equality / father / Free at last / Georgia / holiday /John Kennedy /

Johnson / leader / march / Atlanta / Nobel /

non-violence / preaching / radical /

riots (meutes) / segregation / desegregation / allowed / Memorial / attended / slavery /

repeatedly / south /

Supreme Court

/ awarded / Tennessee

/ theology/ called /leaders

/speeches /constantly /commemorate