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I need to know a boatload of info on Martin Luther King today! I need it for a project so please get me info on him ASAP! Thanks everyone whos helping me!

2007-04-26 05:44:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

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He was and is a very famous person. It should be easy for you to find much information on a search engine like Google, OR you could use several books written about him. You'd find those in a library, school or public. You need to do your own research for it to be meaningful and useful to you. Good luck.

Chow!!

2007-04-26 06:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by No one 7 · 0 0

You waited until the last day to find a "boatload" of information on Marin Luther King, really? That's not hard my dear...use google or a library. Either one will give you tons of information-he's not some obscure historical figure ya know.

2007-04-26 06:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by akivi73 4 · 0 0

I doubt that is real, yet as you comprehend everyone have their vices. i imagine the right question might want to be, no matter if it really is real might want to that fairly overshadow all the finished issues the guy develop into waiting to do?

2016-12-04 22:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished ***** institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great ***** nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a ***** leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the ***** revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

2007-04-26 05:55:40 · answer #4 · answered by KUMAR 1 · 1 0

just google him... you will get more information then you will know what to do with. It's not that hard...

2007-04-26 05:51:20 · answer #5 · answered by perkyash2005 3 · 0 0

go to google.com or go to www.aj.com and ask ur question. dont panic.

2007-04-26 06:14:35 · answer #6 · answered by BOSS 007 1 · 0 0

google.

(why r pple so lazy?)

2007-04-26 05:52:48 · answer #7 · answered by chocolateknight69 3 · 0 0

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