For our dreams ,hold all our lifves.
No matter what problems we meet,please solve them by peaceful ways rather than violence.
All the time, the world wondered how the poor blank people got the great achievement. In 2009, an American historian Taylor → Blanche opened the mystery: behind Martin, there was a woman who unknown to the public, without her, Martin’s career and life were meaningless.
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Instead of fighting by violence, • Martin Luther King, Jr just use peaceful ways, such as leading the peaceful demonstrations and making encouraging speeches.
Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, auburn street 501 ,a Victorian house, on January 15 in 1929. His father was a church pastor (牧师), and his mother was a teacher.
He entered Morehouse college when he was 15 in 1944.He graduated in 1948 and acquireed a bachelor.He studied in Philadelphia for further study from 1948 to 1951.
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The Life for Equality — Martin Luther King
• In his time, the African-Americans had no access to equal civil rights at all. • In order to fight for their legal rights, what did he do ?
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 • On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. Mrs. Parks was not the first AfricanAmerican to be arrested for this “crime”, but she was well known in the African-American community.
The following day, April 4, 1968, as he was leaving hotel. Dr. Martin Luther King, was shot and killed.He was just 39 years old in 1968.
What can we learn from him ?
He was
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His famous speech---I have a dream
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What he has impacted the world.
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His lifetime
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15,1929 – April 4,1968)
Martin Luther King was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement,a Baptist minister and a peacemaker(调解人).
Achievement
In 1964 ,Martin luther king at the age of 35 received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest man who have received this prize.He was so great that he contributed the prize money to the civil rights movements.He was posthumously(于死后) awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1977,the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.
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His lifetime
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His private life
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what he did for African-Americans' right
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The origin of his dreams
He fought for African-American rights.The reason is that the African-Americans had no equal civil rights as white people at that time .He began his speeches and work ,in order to fight for their legal rights.His most influential and well-known speech is "I Have A Dream".Martin Luther King, Jr used to fight by peaceful ways rather than violence.
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I have a dream
In the late of 19 century, the rights of African American suffered discrimination and restraint. In daily life, the United States blacks were often isolated, such as not with the white in a school, a public transport and a place. African American equality problem had become a serious social problem.
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Dr. King and the other African-American leaders felt a protest was needed. The African-Americans of the city were asked to boycott the bus company by walking and driving instead. The United States Supreme Court ended the boycott, which lasted 381 days, by declaring that Alabama’s state and segregation on buses were illegal. The boycott was a success and Dr. King had showed that peaceful mass action could bring about change.