Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929 in a fine Victorian house. There he learnt about family an christian love, segregation in the days of "Jim Crow"laws, diligence and tolerance. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15. On February 2, 1948 king was ordained a Baptist minister. His studies at Crozer and Boston led him to explore the work of the Indian nationalist Mohandas Ghandi whose ideas became the core of his own philosophy based on non-violence. He married Coretta Scott on June, 1953. The following year he accepted an appointment as Pastor in Alabama. On December 1, 1955 at Montgomery, Rosa Parks, a black dressmaker refused to let her seat to a white person in the bus as it was required by the law. Therefore she was arrested.(il faut faire un lien entre cet évènement et la phrase qui suit en introduisant par exemple le fameux boycot des bus organisé par King) In 1963 M.L.King led a massive civil rights campain in Birmingham, Alabama and organized drives to register black voters. He also struggled for better education and housing throughout the South and against segregation. On august 28, 1963 he helped lead a famous civil rights march on Washington, D.C, where he delivered his famous speech "I have a Dream". On December 10, 1963 M.L.King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was very tired and his speeches increasingly alluded to his possible death. On April 3, 1963, he said in a speech he had "been to the moutain top and seen the Promised Land". The following day he was assassinated, shot by a white escaped convict>, James Early Ray. In 1983, a law was passed that made the birthday of M.L.King a national holiday.

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