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Prezi Presents
the life of
M
artin Luther King Jr.
A timeline within a lesson
Grade: 9-12 / Duration: 100-150 minutes
TEACHER NOTES
The following is a presentation that serves two goals:
1
Illustrate the timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Provide a few moments in which students can dig deeper into his life, speeches, and writings.
2
We invite you to copy and adapt this Prezi presentation to meet your needs and contexts.
TEACHER NOTES
Learn more:
MORE INFO
The timeline and content comes from Stanford’s The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute.
Many thanks for their fine work.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/
ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1
CCSS
STANDARDS
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.7
Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.
WHAT DO
WE KNOW?
Before we dig into the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we are going to explore what we know about him already, as well as what we’d like to know about him and his legacy.
You will need sticky notes and something to write with as you work in groups of 4-5.
WHAT DO WE KNOW?
EXERCISE
EXERCISE
In groups of 4-5, list everything you know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
You have 5 minutes.
One fact per sticky note.
Don’t repeat your facts.
Place your sticky notes on the board.
Hold onto your top three facts: present your facts when your teacher calls on your group.
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS
Now in the same groups of 4-5, list all the questions you have about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Put your top three questions on pink sticky notes and present them when called on.
EXPLORATION
EXPLORATION
We will hang onto our questions as we move into an in-depth exploration of Dr. King’s life via the timeline.
TAKE A
LOOK
We are now about to look closely at
Dr. King’s life. As you review the timeline, consider the following questions.
TAKE A LOOK
Think about:
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS
What are major themes that we see throughout his life that characterize Dr. King? What particular evidence supports these themes?
Based on these themes, what words best describe him?
What events in the timeline answer the questions we have formulated?
TIMELINE
Above is a timeline of Dr. King’s life. It is filled with links if you’d like to learn more about any particular event.
TIMELINE
EARLY YEARS
EARLY YEARS
JAN 15
Michael King, later known as Martin Luther King, Jr., is born at 501 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta, Georgia.
Complete Biography:
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/king-martin-luther-jr
1929
King begins his freshman year at
Morehouse College in Atlanta.
SEP 20
1944
AUG 06
King’s pens a letter to the editor at The Atlanta Constitution, stating that black people "are entitled to the basic rights and opportunities of American citizens."
1946
King enters Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania to become a reverend.
SEP 14
1948
SEP 13
King begins his graduate studies in systematic
theology at Boston University.
1951
LEARN MORE
Morehouse College
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/morehouse-college
King’s Letter to the Editor
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/kick-dust-letter-editor-atlanta-constitution
Crozer Theological Seminary
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/crozer-theological-seminary
Learn More
MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY
SEP 01
King begins his career as a pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
1954
DEC 01
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to leave her seat for a white passenger and move to the rear of a city bus in Montgomery. Jo Ann Robinson makes thousands of leaflets calling for a one-day boycott of the city’s buses.
King becomes the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).
DEC 05
1955
JAN 30
In the evening, while King is at a meeting, his home is bombed. His wife and daughter are not injured. Later, King insists on nonviolent solutions as he addresses an angry crowd outside his house.
NOV 13
The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the lower court opinion in Browder v. Gayle declaring Montgomery and Alabama bus segregation laws unconstitutional.
DEC 21
An integrated Montgomery City Lines resumes full service on all routes. King is among the first passengers to ride the integrated buses.
1956
LEARN MORE
Rosa Parks
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/parks-rosa
Montgomery Improvement Association
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/montgomery-improvement-association-mia
Browder v. Gayle
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/browder-v-gayle-352-us-903
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GAINING ACCLAIM
GAINING ACCLAIM
Southern black ministers meet in Atlanta to share strategies in the fight against segregation. King is named chairman of the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration.
JAN 10
King appears on the cover of Time Magazine.
FEB 18
At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., King delivers his first national address,
"Give Us The Ballot," at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom.
MAY 17
1957
During a book signing for his first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, King is stabbed by Izola Ware Curry. He is rushed to Harlem Hospital where a team of doctors successfully remove a seven-inch letter opener from his chest.
SEP 20
1958
FEB 03
King and his family travel to India where he meets with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and many of Gandhi’s followers.
1959
JUN 23
King meets privately in New York with Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.
1960
LEARN MORE
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/southern-christian-leadership-conference-sclc
Give Us the Ballot
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/give-us-ballot-address-delivered-prayer-pilgrimage-freedom
Izola Ware Curry
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/curry-izola-ware
Month-long Visit to India
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/india-trip
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Interactions with John F. Kennedy
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/kennedy-john-fitzgerald
FURTHERING
EMANCIPATION
EMANCIPATION
OCT 19
In response to a sit-in demonstration at Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta, King is arrested and sentenced to four months hard labor for violating a suspended sentence he received for a 1956 traffic violation. He is released on $2,000 bond on 27 October.
1960
MAY 21
A group of peaceful Freedom Riders seeking to integrate bus terminals are assaulted in Alabama. King addresses a mass rally at a Montgomery church.
OCT 16
King meets with President John F. Kennedy. He wants Kennedy to issue a second Emancipation Proclamation to eliminate racial segregation.
1961
King is arrested at an Albany, Georgia prayer vigil and jailed. After spending
two weeks in jail, King is released.
JUL 27
During the closing session of the SCLC conference in Birmingham, Alabama, a
member of the American Nazi Party assaults King, striking him twice in the face.
SEP 28
1962
APR 16
In response to Jewish and Christian clergymen’s advice that African Americans wait patiently for justice, King writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
MAY 07
Birmingham conflict reaches a high point when
fire hoses push demonstrators from the business district. Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor also uses dogs, clubs, and cattle prods to break up and intimidate 4,000 demonstrators in downtown Birmingham.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom attracts more than 200,000 demonstrators to the Lincoln Memorial. King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech.
AUG 28
1963
"I have a dream"
LEARN MORE
Sit-ins
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/sit-ins
Freedom Rides
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/freedom-rides
Emancipation Proclamation
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/emancipation-proclamation
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/letter-birmingham-jail
Birmingham Campaign
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/birmingham-campaign
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I Have a Dream Speech
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/i-have-dream
RECOGNITION &
OVERCOMING FEAR
OVERCOMING FEAR
SEP 18
King delivers the eulogy at the funerals of Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, three of the four children that were killed during the September 15 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
OCT 10
U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorizes the FBI to wiretap King’s home phone.
1963
JAN 03
King is named "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine.
JAN 18
King, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and James Farmer meet President Lyndon B. Johnson in support of his War on Poverty initiative.
MAR 26
Malcolm X and King meet in Washington, D.C. for the first and only time.
JUN 11
King is arrested and jailed for demanding service at a white-only restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida.
Jun
Jan
1964
JUL 20
King and SCLC assist the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign.
NOV 18
After King criticizes the FBI’s failure to protect civil rights workers, the agency’s director, J. Edgar Hoover, denounces King as "the most notorious liar in the country." A week later he states that SCLC is "spearheaded by Communists and moral degenerates."
DEC 10
King receives the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. He declares that "every penny" of the $54,000 award will be used in the ongoing civil rights struggle.
JUL - DEC
Dec
Jul
1964
MAR 07
Voting rights marchers are beaten at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as they attempt to march to Montgomery. The event becomes known as "Bloody Sunday."
MAR 17
After a U.S. District Judge upholds the right of demonstrators to conduct an orderly march, King, James Forman, and John Lewis lead civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery.
1965
LEARN MORE
FBI & King
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/federal-bureau-investigation-fbi
Malcolm X & King
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/malcolm-x
Hoover & King
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/communism
Nobel Peace Prize
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/nobel-peace-prize
Learn More
Selma to Montgomery
Bloody Sunday: A flashback of the landmark Selma to Montgomery marches
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/selma-montgomery-march
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/bloody-sunday-a-flashback-of-the-landmark-selma-to-montgomery-marches-1191243331868
AFTER SELMA
AFTER SELMA
APR 04
King delivers "Beyond Vietnam" to Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV). He demands that the U.S. take new initiatives to end the war.
JUN
King’s book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? is published.
DEC 04
King informs the public he is organizing a mass civil disobedience campaign, the Poor People's Campaign, in Washington, D.C., to insist the government must end poverty.
1967
MAR 28
King leads a march of 6,000 protesters in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. The march descends into violence, and King is rushed from the scene.
King returns to Memphis, determined to lead a peaceful march. During an evening rally at Mason Temple in Memphis, King delivers his final speech, "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop."
APR 03
APR 04
King is shot and killed while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
1968
LEARN MORE
Beyond Vietnam
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/beyond-vietnam
Poor People’s Campaign
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/poor-peoples-campaign
I’ve Been to the Mountain Top
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/ive-been-mountaintop
Assassination
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/assassination-martin-luther-king-jr
Learn More
CLASS
DISCUSSION
CLASS DISCUSSION
From your original set of questions, what was answered?
What misconceptions were corrected?
What new questions do you have?
What are the major themes that we see throughout his life that characterize Dr. King? What particular evidence supports these themes?
Based on these themes, what words best describe him?
Assignment
ASSIGNMENT
Given your explorations and discussions of Dr. King, pair up and create a Prezi presentation or Prezi video that investigates an aspect of Dr. King's life or legacy.
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1. Choose a topic.
2. Find five resources to support your topic.
3. Read and analyze your sources.
4. Craft an outline or script.
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