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Martin Luther King Jr. The Most Influential Person In Histor
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What you should know about him.
His Speech
- Baptist minster
- Social activist
- Led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
- Born on January 15, 1929
- Assissnated on April 4, 1968
- The " I Have a Dream" speech is one of the most known speeches in the world today.
- His speech might be the only reason that America is truly equal today
- His speech was very important in American History because it led to the end of segregation.
Early Life
Martin Luther King Jr. The Most Influential Person In History
- Middle child Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King
- Family was rooted in rural Georgia
- Grandfather was a minster for years and then moved to Atlanta
- Took over the Ebenezer Baptist church (13 members)
- Married Alberta in 1926
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929- 1968)
- Was a notorious leader of the Civil Rights Movement
- He also pushed to get rid of racial segregation in America
- His speech was the main fact that segregation ended
- Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders present at the ceremony.
- The act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the nonwhite population had not registered to vote, and authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections
By: Robert Martinez
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