MartinLutherking JR.

WHO IS HE?

BORN- January 15, 1929

DIED- April 4, 1968

He was an American Pastor, activist & prominent leader in African American civil rights movement

Best known for his “I Have A

Dream” speech and

an iconic figure around the world

in advancement of civil

rights,

Using nonviolent teachings of

Mahatma Ghandi

More About Him….

The youngest person to

receive the Nobel Peace

Prize for his work to end

racial segregation and

racial discrimination

through civil disobedience and

other nonviolent meansrefocused his efforts on ending

poverty and stopping the Vietnam War

He was found to be a subject to adultery -He had a lot of affairs.He blamed this on his ‘weakness for women’ and ‘a form of anxiety’

He is the most

famous

Human Rights activist, still

talked about

today

“I have a dream”

17 minute long

speechSpeech calling for racial equality & an end to discrimination

"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.”

It was presented from the steps

of the Lincoln Memorial

in Washington D.C

Delivered to over200,000 civil rights supporters

HIS DEATH

He was

murdered on April 4,

1968, in Memphis,

Tennessee – to this day

nobody knows who or why did

it but some

think the FBI are involved

He was standing on a hotel balcony. Eyewitnesses saw A "well-dressed"

white man who is said to have dropped an automatic rifle after the shooting and escaped in a blue car.

- EQUALITY

- NO DISCRIMINATION- WE’RE ALL THE SAME

- IT DOESN’T MATTER ABOUT THE

COLOUR OF THE SKIN, BUT THE CONTENT OF ONES

NATURE

RELATING TO THE BOOK

Martin Luther King’s key points:

‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ relatable points

Scout and Jem’s white father gets a lot of haters when he fights for a

black man in trouble –

This shows that the community is racist and white and black people

are considered unequal

Martin Luther King’s aim was to get black people considered equal to white people and to end discrimination and racism , in this book a lot of

the white think that they are better than the black and a lot of

discrimination and racism occurs .

Legacy & impactBlack and white people

are considered more

equal than they used

to in the past because

of Martin Luther King

He is one of the main

reasons for the

change in society His legacy still lives on today