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马丁路德⾦英⽂介绍The Life ofDr. MartinLuther King, Jr.By Mr. Buckman’s Second GradeTrombly SchoolGrosse Pointe, MichiganClick on the pictures at the bottom to move from fact to fact.Click on the “Slide Show” button in the lower right corner to begin.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He liked to play baseball, basketball and football. He liked to sing in hisfather’s church.

Martin’s dad was a minister. His mom was a teacher. His brother was named Daniel. His sister was named Christina. He liked to read when he waslittle. He liked to play.

Young Martin played in his backyard with his friends. One day he was told that two of his friends would no longer play with him because they were whiteand he was black. He saw signs that said “white only,” so he could not go to a lot of different places. He felt very sad. Martin wanted to know just whywhite and black people couldn’t just come together and be friends.

Martin could not go where his white friends could go. He had to go to different restrooms. He could not go to very many restaurants. Martin had to go todifferent libraries and a different school. Martin was very sad.Martin said love is the key to the problems of the world. Martin talked to his grandma for hours and hours. Martin believed that love solves everything.

Martin loved to read. Sometimes Martin didn’t read from books but he read from his memory in front of the mirror. Martin liked to read about black leadersfrom a long time ago. When Martin gave a speech, he read from a script.When he read, he was always full of questions. And he was always thinking about how black people and white people can come together. And he likedto talk about ideas, too.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great student. He finished high school two years early. At Morehouse College, Martin decided to become a minister. Afterhe graduated, he studied for a doctorate at Boston University.

Martin married Coretta Scott. Martin met Coretta at Boston University. They married in 1953. Martin got married while at Boston University. They had fourchildren.Dr. King moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in September of 1954 to become the minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.Martin practiced speeches in front of a mirror. So he could get better at speeches. He was a minister and he was able to tell everybody what he felt.

Martin saw people that were treated differently from each other. Black people had to go to separate drinking fountains. People had to go to differentrestaurants. Black people had to go upstairs at the movies.

Bus boycott was started in Montgomery, Alabama after an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white personwhen he asked her to.

Dr. King became active in the Civil Rights Movement. Because he was active in the Montgomery Bus Strike and supported it, Dr. King was arrested andput in jail for driving 5 miles an hour faster than the speed limit.

In the year 1954, Martin was beginning his first job as a minister in Montgomery, Alabama. Black and white people had to ride in different places onbuses. Martin helped lead a peaceful protest. Black people throughout the whole city chose to boycott riding the buses. They didn’t ride on many buses.

Dr. King said there is a time when people get tired of getting pushed around. The bus protests lasted almost a whole year. When it was done, there werenot signs saying where anyone had to sit on the buses.