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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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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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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