Martin Luther King

1.

“If you can't fly
then run,
If you can't run
then walk,
If you can't walk
then crawl, But
whatever you do
You have to keep
moving forward.”
Martin
Luther King

2. Martin Luther King

1)His
name was
originally
Michael,
not Martin
2) At the age of 12,
he seems to have
tried to commit
suicide. It was May
of 1941 when his
grandmother
passed away after
a heart attack.
3) King Jr. skipped
two grades in high
school, 9th and
11th, and entered
college
(Moorehouse
College) at the
tender age of 15 in
1944.
His honeymoon was
spent at a funeral
parlor… not because
someone died, simply
because a friend
owned the parlor
and offered to let
him use it for his
honeymoon.
By 19, he
received a
bachelor’s
degree in
sociology.
King was appointed
the honorary
president of ‘Gandhi
Society for Human
Right’ an
organization to
defend the ministers
of SCLC in libel suit
over newspaper
advertisement.

3.

King liked
singing and
music and was
influenced by his
mother, who
was an
accomplished
organist and
choir leader. He
became a
member of
junior choir in his
church.

4. Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at
the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I
Have A Dream' speech.

5. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of

Montgomery, Alabama state capital building. On March
25, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama.