Name: Martin Luther King Date

Name: Martin Luther King Date:

The man who had a dream

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Georgia. Say when.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/

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What was his father's job? What was his mother's job?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/timeline.html

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Martin Luther King Jr. became a minister in Alabama. Find Alabama and Geogia on

the map of the United States, and say if they are Northern states or Southern states.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/us_map.htm

http://www.infoplease.com/states.html

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When Martin Luther King Jr. was a child, black people did not have the same rights as

white people. Describe two examples of inequality on the following pictures

Example 1 http://www.web.net/~jharnick/i/racist5.gif

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Example 2 http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/PhotoAlbum/civil_rights.cfm

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So what did he decide to do? http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/

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Martin Luther King Jr. advocated non-violent action. What sort of actions did he

organize? http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html

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What was the name of his wife? Did he have children?

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/

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What are black people often called nowadays in the USA?

http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/NEWafamML1.html

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When and how was Martin Luther King Jr. killed?

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/bhm/0,8805,97677,00.html

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How do people in the US commemorate his life and achievements?

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/

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What do most people call Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous speech? To find out,

type "most famous speech Martin Luther King" in Google

http://wwwgoogle.com

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Some quotations:

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defence

than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the colour of their skin,

but by the content of their character.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry.

It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death.
It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.
It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered
by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.