BLACK HISTORY – MARTIN LUTHER KING, A SHORT VERSION

Martin Luther King was born on January 15th 1929 in Georgia. There he lived with his family and friends. In 1935 Martin was told that because he was black, he no longer could play with his friends, whom were white. Nobody likes to hear that, but obviously Martin Luther got over it and moved on. In 1948 he graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta. Five years later, in 1953, he married Coretta Scott. The next year Martin became a pastor of his own church in Montgomery.



After Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus, Martin led a boycott of the busses in Montgomery for two years. In 1963 he led a march in Washington on August 28th, and from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial he gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. In 64 Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.