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Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King Jr was born on the 15th of January 1929 in Atlanta Georgia, America at noon. He was born as Michael King Jr but his name changed to Martin Luther King Jr. He lived with his parents, grandparents, brother, sister, uncles and aunts. Martin parents are the Reverend and Mrs Martin Luther King Sr. His father was a Christian minister at Ebenezer Baptism Church. There was a burnt cross in front of his new built house that represented what was left of his old house when it got burnt in 1962. It was also bombed when it got burnt and no one was injured. When Martin was young and at school, he started to think about how he could help the black people in the South of America, because he knew and learnt from school that they Martin Luther King Jr were in danger. In 1944 he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to Morehouse College School at the age of 15. At the age of 22 he went to Boston University where he meat Coretta Scott. Martin began nursery school in 1932. After Martin finished school, he became a minister and that was his main job. When he married a woman named Coretta Scott in 1953, they had four children named Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice. They all settled in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin stood up for the black people. He helped them have freedom by getting them out of court. He wanted to make things better for the black people and he wanted the black people to be equal to the white people. It was his job to help them and he was their leader. Martin became a leader because he was inspired by a girl named Rosa Parks. She travelled on a bus to get to Martin to inspire him to become a leader. During Martins life he became one of the best African-American leaders. During his leadership life, he began to think about why people followed him and he knew later on because he was a good leader to them. The speech he gave became one of the most famous speeches in history. The speech he gave was called I have a dream. It went for seventeen minutes. It was said at the Lincoln Memorial on the 28th of August 1963. More than 250,000 people attended Martins speech. He has said lots of speeches although his life. They are called Beyond Vietnam: A time to break silence, Give us the ballot, How long not long and Ive been to the mountain top.

This is where Martin lived

There are over 730 streets in the United States named after Martin Luther King Jr. Later on in life he started to travel around America to speak at meetings and write books. The books he wrote were called The Measure of a Man, Strength to Love, Why we cant wait, The Trumpet of Conscience and The Montgomery Story. He became a minister like his father in a church in Montgomery and was still upset at the way black people were treated. He was also the youngest to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and the Spingarn Medal in 1964. During his leadership life, Martin was arrested for protesting and sent to jail but was soon released because he only had to be in jail for a short time because it wasnt that bad. His house was also bombed because of that. He had a choses of 45 days in jail or a $178 fine, he chose jail. Martin was assassinated on the 4th of April 1968 in Memphis Tennessee, America on his balcony at his hotel, by a man named James Earl Ray. Martins killer died in jail in 1998. He was nearly assassinated a decade earlier than his ultimate death. When the Americas found out Martin was shot, they were really shocked. He died one day after his last speech in 1968. Two funeral services were held for Martin on the 9th of April 1968 in Atlanta Georgia, America. They were held at Ebenezer Baptist Church and at Morehouse College. Thousands of people attended and millions watched on TV.