Martin Luther King Jr. Blog Post

This Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. day. We celebrate it to honor him and his many achievements. In school we are learning about him and his “I have a dream” speech. I think he is one of the most important people of the U.S. and I also think he is also underrated sometimes. He made many movements and made lots of speeches too. I think he deserves more attention. I also feel like people just take his holiday for granted because school is closed and kids don’t even care. Mostly because kids don’t even know him. Schools should teach about him in the early grades so they can reference him as they become older.

Martin Luther King Timeline 

Date Event
January 15th, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia
1944  Started to go to Morehouse College
1948 Became a pastor at his father’s church
1948 He started to go to Crozer Theological Seminary, religious school
1951 Began studying at Boston University
1953 Married to Coretta Scott
1954 Moved to Montgomery, Alabama with his wife and had a job as a pastor
1957 He joined the NAACP and talked about convincing colored people to join and fight
1957 Joined other colored religious leaders to form SCLC, he began doing peaceful protests
October, 1960 Briefly jailed for joining a group of students at a sit-in
1963 Nationwide civil rights movement across the country
April 12th, 1963 Arrested again with civil rights leader, Ralph Abernathy
April 16th 1963 He wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail about racism
August 28th, 1963 I Have a Dream speech
April 4th, 1968 Shot and died by James Earl Ray while talking to fellow protestors on his balcony
April 9th 1968 Martin was buried in Atlanta

 

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