Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. by Mind Map: Martin Luther King Jr.

1. His birth name was Michael Luther King Jr. but later he had his name changed to Martin.

1.1. Was born and died on January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968. He Died at the age of 39.

2. March 23, 1956: Despite the smiles, Martin Luther King has just been found guilty and sentenced to hard labor for conspiring to boycott segregated buses. On November 13, the U.S. Supreme Court rules bus segregation unconstitutional. "I was proud of my crime," King says. "It was the crime of joining my people in a nonviolent protest against injustice."

3. On August 28, 1963 he everybody his famous speech outside Licolns Memorial."I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,'" he says.

3.1. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

4. Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished many great things during his life. He changed many peoples lifes. If it were not for him, there would be lots of racism in my school, their still is some racism but not like back then but thanks to him he put a end to the racism.

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6. Martin Luther King Jr. was establishes as the No. 1 leader of 16 million Negroes.

6.1. He fought hard to make peace and change the minds of many racists in the world.

7. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen, he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College

7.1. He became a Baptist minister at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Like his father and grandfather.

7.2. While completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955 at Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments they had two sons and two daughters.

7.3. When he returned to the South, and from getting his degree he became a pastor of a church in Montgomery, Alabama.

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8. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action and mean while he wrote five books as well as numerous articles.