Monday, March 21, 2011

mlk mini biography

1. When was he born? Where?
January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968,Atlanta,georgia

2. Where did he receive his high school diploma? Bachelor's degree? Were the schools he attended segregrated?
Booker T. Washington High School. A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, and enrolled in Crozer Theologioy Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951

3. When did he get married? To who? Does he have kids?
King married coretta scott, on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of heliberg alabama They had four children; Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King

4. Where did he first became a pastor? At what church?
Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama

5. What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
a civil rights union

6. What rule did MLK teach for protests during the Civil Rights Movement?
non-violence

7. What was his role in the Civil Rights Movement?
the leader of the civil rights movements

8. Why was he arrested? How was he released?
9. When did he win the Nobel Peace Prize? For what?
 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience

10. How did MLK die? When?
assinated april 4, 1968

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