Bonsoir Gilles,
• Martin Luther King was born on Janurary...
• As a boy, he liked reading books about black leaders.
• He wanted to become a preacher and his parents
send him to be educated in the north...
• In 1953, he got married with Coretta Scott...
• As a minister in Montgomery, Dr King heard about
Rosa Parks...
• That's why he decided to organize a bus boycott...
• For a year, blacks refused to use buses !
• Finally, the Supreme Court in Washington declared
that segregation on the buses in Alabama was illegal.
• Afterwards, King continued leading many other protests...
• In 1963, to commemorate President's Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation
of 1863, he led a great march on Washington...
• Some white people supported him, but many opposed him...
• In 1964, he won the Nobel Peace Prize...
• On April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, a white man assassinated MLK...
Bonne soirée
