PPT-Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr was photographed by Alabama cops following his February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott The historic mug shot taken when King was 27 was discovered in July 2004 by a deputy cleaning out a Montgomery County Sheriffs Department storage room It is unclear when the notations DEAD and 4468 were written on the picture. L/O – To explain the significance of MLK’s death to the Civil Rights Movement. Political Assassinations of the 1960s. During the 1960s, several important US political figures were . assassinated. Birth:January. . 15, . 1929. . Death: April . 4, . 1968. Martin’s family called him . “M.L.” . He was a very bright boy, and everyone was amazed at what a good memory he had. His parents got him into first grade when he was five, instead of six. But M.L. liked to tell people the . Maureen. Yolanda King is the eldest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.. Who is she?. Born November 17, . 1955 as Yolanda Denise King. Born in Montgomery, Alabama to Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott . luther. King. jr. Biography. Martin Luther King, Jr.. , (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at . October 6, 2015 . TSWBAT analyze text for its use of rhetorical devices. . Warm Up: Trade business letters with a partner and comment on the following. Is the letter in the correct format?. Does the evidence support their opening paragraph?. Birmingham Jail. Martin Luther King Jr.. Martin Luther King Jr.. . Born into a family of baptist ministers. Went to school in Atlanta, GA. planned to study medicine and law. decided to commit himself to ministry. In 1954, the Civil Rights movement began with the Brown v BOE decision, but the rest of American society remained segregated:. The NAACP showed that the . 14. th. Amendment could be used to challenge segregation. Martin Luther . Vs.. Pope Leo. Original pictures, videos, and newspapers are all examples of primary sources.. Primary Sources are eyewitness or firsthand accounts (by a person or persons who actually witnessed the event). L/O – To explain the significance of MLK’s death to the Civil Rights Movement. Political Assassinations of the 1960s. During the 1960s, several important US political figures were . assassinated. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929. He died in 1968. . Martin worked hard to make sure that everyone was treated the same.. When Martin was a boy, he saw that Americans with different skin colors were not always treated the same. . (Part 3 of 3). Luther -vs- the Radical Reformers (1522-1546). Taking the Reform Too Far. Some of Luther’s disciples went overboard with extreme . ____________. Luther didn’t want to “throw out the baby with the bathwater” but only to fix what was truly broken. that . . every believer is a Priest.. “For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.” . Birth of Luther. Early Life. Went to study law.. Got caught in a thunderstorm and vowed to dedicate his life to God.. Joined the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine.. Journey to Rome in 1510.. Developed many criticisms while there of the Church.. ”. Howard Kaplan & . Tiffany Middleton,. American Bar Association Division for Public Education . Illinois Council for History Education. March 4, 2016. www.ambar.org/publicedevents. Walker v. Birmingham .