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Martin Luther King Jr.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

BY ESMERALDA PACHECO CONTRERAS
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MARTIN WAS BORN ON JANUARY 15,1929 IN ALANTA ,GEORGIA

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While that timeline black and whites were separation called segregation because of that they couldn't talk or play

Bathrooms ,hospitals waiting room even drinking fountain they had to be separated.

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He completed high school early Martin enrolled in Morehouse college in Atlanta in 1944

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Upon his graduation opinion 1948 ,Martin went to Crozer theological seminary in Pennsylvania to study religion

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After earning his degree from Crozer in 1951 ,he began doctoral studies at Boston University in philosophy and religion

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Martin became a pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery,Alabama

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While he was in Boston he met Coretta Scott they married in 1953 and four children

In 1955 an African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man and she was arrested for breaking a segregation law

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In 1963 he traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to organize a protest against segregation in downtown department stores

Birmingham police moved against the protesters with clubs and attack dogs Martin was arrested and placed in solitary confinement where he wrote his famous letter from Birmingham jail

In August 1963 Martin and other civil rights leaders brought together about 250,000 people for a huge protest called the march in Washington Martin said I Have a dream speech

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WHEN DAY HE GAVE HIS SPEACH IN WASHINGTON

Many months later he was killed by two men while he was going down the hall

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR."UXL BIOGRAPHIES .DETROIT: UXL ,2003.KIDS INFOBITS WED .1FEB.2016

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