Martin Luther King INTERVIEWS
Robin
Q: What does Martin Luther King mean to you?
A: He was a man who fought for civil rights.
Q: Does anything he did affect you directly in any way? What?
A: Yes, we eat at restaurants together, talk to each other and for the most part get treated equally.
Q: Have you ever read the I Have a Dream Speech? What do you think it means?
A: Yes, a long time ago, what he was saying was that everyone should be treated equally. I think he was very correct in what he was saying but no one wanted to accept that.
Q: Do you think it is important to keep his dream alive? Why?
A: Yes! Because everyone should be treated the same.
Courtney
Q: What does Martin Luther King Mean to you?
A: He fought for freedom among African Americans.
Q: Does anything he did affect your daily life?
A: Yes, because there are people of all races that go to my school with me.
Q: Have you ever read the I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King, Jr? Does it mean anything to you?
A: Yes, but it does not mean much to me. I think it means more to African Americans.
Q: Summarize in a couple of sentences what the "I Have a Dream" speech is saying?
A: All people should de treated equally no matter their race.
Q: Do you think it is important to keep his dream alive?
A: Yes, it is not fair to treat people differently because they look differently.
Now please tell all you know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (1929 – 1968)
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AMERICAN BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATION
EMANCIPATION FREEDOM GOD HOME INJUSTICE
JAIL KING LUTHER MARTIN NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
OPPRESSION PEACE QUESTION REVERENT SPEECH
TENNESSE UNITED VIOLENCE WORLD YOUNG
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Time Line
1929-Martin Luther King, Jr. was born
1948-Martin Luther King, Jr. graduates from MorehouseCollege in Alanta, Georgia
1951-Graduates with a B.D from Crozer Teological Seminary in Chester
1953-June 18 Martin Luther King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Atlanta
1954-September King moves to Montgomery, Alabama to preach at DexterAvenueBaptistChurch
1955-After coursework at New England colleges, King finishes his Ph. D. in systematic theology.
1956-January 26 King was arrested for driving 30 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone.
1957-January Black ministers from what became known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King is named first president one month later.
In this typical year of demonstration, King traveled 780,000 miles and made 208 speeches.
1958-King's first book was published called Stride Toward Freedom. It is about recollection of the Montgomery bus boycott.
King was stabbed by an African American woman.
1959-King visited India where he studied Ghandi's ways, and credited Gandi's passive resistance techniques for his civil right's success.
1960-King leaves for Atlanta to pastor his father's church, EbenezerBaptistChurch.
1962-King meets with President Kennedy to urge support for civil rights.
1963-King leads protest in Birmingham.
April arrested after demonstrating in defiance of a court order.
August 28 250,000 civil rights supporter attended the March on Washington. At the Lincoln Memorial, King delivers the famous "I Have a Dream Speech."
1964-King published another book called Why We Can't Wait?
King visited with West Berlin Mayor Willy Brant and Pope Paul IV
December 10 King wins Nobel Peace Prize
1965-January 18 King successfully registers to vote at the Hotel Albert in Selma, Atlanta and is assaulted by James George Robinson of Birmingham.
February, King arrested and jailed for contunied protesting.
March 16-21 King and 3,200 people march from Selma to Montgomery.
1968-April 4 King is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. by James Earl Ray.
1986-January 20 is the first national celebration of King's birthday as a holiday.