Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

He Had a Dream

Early Life

• Born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta• Strong Baptist family• One sister, Christine one younger

brother, Alfred• Played games and sports with kids

his age

Family

• Father was Mike King an assistant pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church

• Highly respected his father and mother

• Grandmother Williams was especially important to him

Schooling

• High school in Atlanta• Junior year, skipped to college at

Morehouse College at the age of 15• Degree in sociology• Crozer Theological Seminary and

University of Pennsylvania

Courtship• First met Coretta Scott in Boston• Married in 1953• 4 children throughout marriage

Words of Coretta Scott

• "...he was looking for a wife. I wasn't looking for a husband, but he was a wonderful human being...I still resisted his overtures, but after he persisted, I had to pray about it...I had a dream, and in that dream, I was made to feel that I should allow myself to be open and stop fighting the relationship. That's what I did, and of course the rest is history. "

Pastoral Work

• First job in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954

• Started with a $4,300 a year wage• Very hard working

Montgomery Bus Boycott

• December 1, 1955; Rosa Parks• Planned as a 1 day boycott• MIA• Non-violence

Boycott’s Impact

• Montgomery County Grand Jury• Money loss• Supreme Court• SCLC• Meeting with President Eisenhower

March on Washington

• August 28, 1963• Non-violence• “I Have a Dream”• Met with President

1964

• TIME Magazine• Civil Rights Act• Nobel Peace Prize

Assassination

• April 4th, 1968• Balcony of Lorraine Motel• Bullet to jaw• Riots

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow

confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of

all humanity”