Iris - Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/king.htm Follow the timeline where it says, “Timeline starts here.” Make a list of the events of Dr. King’s life.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/: Go to the Web site. Click on “About Martin Luther King, Jr.” Then click on “Black Freedom Struggle.” Answer the questions below. (You should look up the underlined words.)
1. Who was Rosa Parks? What did she do to bring about desegregated buses?
2. What were sit-in protests? Why did people do them?
http://thekingcenter.com/: Go to the Web site. Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. speak. How does he define greatness?
http://www.nps.gov/malu/: Go to the Web site. You will find a short biography of Dr. King.
1. Look up the definition of “Jim Crow laws” in an encyclopedia
2. Click on the “Virtual Birth Home Tour.” You will get a map of the house Dr. King grew up in. Click on the parlor, the parents’ bedroom, and the boys’ bedroom. Read about what happened in each room. Write a short report of how the family lived.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/: Go to the Web site. Listen to the “I Have a Dream” speech. You will hear Dr. King say, “I have a dream that __________” and then he will list what he dreams about. List three of these things. Why does he wish for them?
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/: Go to the Web site. Click on “About Martin Luther King, Jr.” Then click on “Black Freedom Struggle.” Answer the questions below. (You should look up the underlined words.)
1. Who was Rosa Parks? What did she do to bring about desegregated buses?
2. What were sit-in protests? Why did people do them?
http://thekingcenter.com/: Go to the Web site. Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. speak. How does he define greatness?
http://www.nps.gov/malu/: Go to the Web site. You will find a short biography of Dr. King.
1. Look up the definition of “Jim Crow laws” in an encyclopedia
2. Click on the “Virtual Birth Home Tour.” You will get a map of the house Dr. King grew up in. Click on the parlor, the parents’ bedroom, and the boys’ bedroom. Read about what happened in each room. Write a short report of how the family lived.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/: Go to the Web site. Listen to the “I Have a Dream” speech. You will hear Dr. King say, “I have a dream that __________” and then he will list what he dreams about. List three of these things. Why does he wish for them?
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The Events of Dr.King's Life
Jan.15,1929--Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1935--Martin was told that he could not play with his friends because they were white and Martin was black.
1947--Martin was ordained a minister.
1948--Martin graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Gerogia.
1953--Martin was in Boston and married Coretta Scott.
1954--Martin became a pastor of his own church in Montgomery, Alabama.
1955-1956--Martin led a boycott of the buses in MOntgomery, Alabama.
1963--Martin led a march on Washington on august 28 and gave his "I have a dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1964--Martin was awarded the NObel Peace Prize which was a treat honor.
1968--Martin was assassinated because some people did not like him.
1983--the 3rd Monday in January was declared an annual federal holiday by the United States Congress.
Dr.King's definition of greatness:
If you want to be important wonderful,
If you want to be recognized wonderful,
If you want to be great wonderful,but recognize that he who is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
That's a new definition of greatness.
And this morning, the thing that I lke about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means everybody can be great because everybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subgect and your verb atree to serve.
You don't hae to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve.
You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.
You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
And you can be that servant.
Rosa Parks - The Woman Who Chaged a Nation
Rosa parks is an African American who refused to give up her seat to a white man after her hard-working day on December 1, 1955. In this case, she was not only physically tired, but she could not bear the mistreatment with the racism and segregation. She was arrested and her action led to the desegretated buses. Eventually, the Supreme Court's ruling in November 1956 was that segregation on transportation is unconstitutional.
Jim Crow laws -In U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and muncipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate facilities for whites and blacks were constitutional encouraged the passage of discriminatory laws that wiped out the gains made by blacks during Reconstruction. Railways and streetcars, public waiting rooms, restaurants, boardinghouses, theaters, and public parks were segregated; separate schools, hospitals, and other public institutions, generally of inferior quality, were designated for blacks.By World War I, even places of employment were segregated, and it was not until after World War II that an assault on Jim Crow in the South began to make headway. In 1950 the Supreme Court ruled that the Univ. of Texas must admit a black, Herman Sweatt, to the law school, on the grounds that the state did not provide equal education for him. This was followed (1954) by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., declaring separate facilities by race to be unconstitutional. Blacks in the South used legal suits, mass sit-ins, and boycotts to hasten desegregation. A march on Washington by over 200,000 in 1963 dramatized the movement to end Jim Crow. Southern whites often responded with violence, and federal troops were needed to preserve order and protect blacks, notably at Little Rock, Ark. (1957), Oxford, Miss. (1962), and Selma, Ala. (1965). The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 finally ended the legal sanctions to Jim Crow.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/j/jimc1rowl.asp
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”
Dr. King’s wishes were not only his own, but were for all Negroes. There were so many reasons for his wishes, because he knew that Negroes deserved all of the rights which all others in the country had. He believed that no matter what the color of your skin, no matter how poor or wealthy you were, no matter where you came from - the light of the freedom should illuminate each patch of the land in the nation.
"We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. There is still a voice crying out through the vista of time, saying: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you. Then, and only then, can you matriculate into the University of Eternal Life. That same voice cries out in terms lifted to cosmic proportions: He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword. And history is replete with the bleached bones of nations that failed to follow this command. We must follow nonviolence and love."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Give Us the Ballot, 17 May 1957
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