Title: Let's learn about Martin Luther King

About Martin Luther King

Let's read about Martin Luther King

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. He was born into a religious family and his father was a preacher at a Baptist church.

Black people in the southern part of the United States did not have equal rights when Dr King was growing up. They were often poorer and less well educated than white people. Black students in Atlanta were forced to attend separate schools, and live in separate areas of the city, under a system known as segregation.

Martin enjoyed learning, and he passed through school very quickly. He was only fifteen when he graduated from high school, and became ready to enter university. He attended Morehouse College, one of the few universities in Atlanta where black students were allowed to study at the time.

.In 1954, Martin and and his wife Coretta moved to Montgomery, Alabama, after he was offered a job as a Baptist Minister.

Dr King became a civil rights activist early on in his career, and led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott began after Rosa Parks, a black woman who lived in Montgomery, was arrested for sitting in the white part of a city bus. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 382 days, and ended when the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial separation was illegal in the Montgomery bus system.

The ruling gave black people a new feeling of pride and unity. They saw that peaceful protest could be used as a tool to win their legal rights.

Doctor King helped organize many protests in the southern part of the United.

In 1963, Dr King organised a March to Washington D.C, where he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech, which expressed his ideas and hopes for the future. He was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1964, but he did not live to see the final results of his life's work. He was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 while attending a rally there.

Put the important events in Martin Luther King's life in the correct order.

Put the important events in Martin Luther King's life in the correct order. Add the correct number 1-6 in the gap.

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Q: Wins the Nobel Prize. [...]

Graduates from High School. [...]

Joins the Montgomery bus boycott. [...]

Gives his famous speech "I have a Dream". [...]

Born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929.  [...]

Moves to Montgomery in Alabama. [...]
A: 6; 2; 4; 5; 1; 3

I have a dream

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Χωρίς τίτλο True/False Question

Q: This is an extract from Martin Luther King's famous speech "I have a dream".
A: true

Χωρίς τίτλο Multiple Choice

Q: Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
- In Montgomery
- In New York
- In Washington, D.C. (correct)

Χωρίς τίτλο Multiple Choice

Q: What was the main goal of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech?
- To announce a new political party
- To promote racial equality and call for an end to discrimination (correct)
- To become the Presdident of the USA.

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