Historical Figure padlet by Stephen Pasquarella https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw en-us 2022-04-08 12:51:05 UTC 2022-04-29 14:06:36 UTC hello@padlet.com family 40009031 https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164269825 King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern Black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers. His parents were college-educated, and King's father had succeeded his father-in-law as pastor of the prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.]]> 2022-04-29 13:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164269825 Date/Place of birthDate/Place of death 40009031 https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164273016 At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination made major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths everywhere and large property damage in over 100 American cities. James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped fugitive, was later told of the crime and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term. During King’s funeral, a tape recording was played in which King spoke of how he wanted to be remembered after his death]]> 2022-04-29 13:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164273016 Personal Life (marriage, kids, lived alone.) 40009031 https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164282422 At his childhood home, King and his two siblings would read aloud the Bible as instructed by their father. After dinners there, King's grandmother Jennie, whom he affectionately referred to as "Mama", would tell lively stories from the Bible to her grandchildren. King's father would regularly use whippings to discipline his children. At times, King Sr. would also have his children whip each other. King's father later remarked, "[King] was the most peculiar child whenever you whipped him. He'd stand there, and the tears would run down, and he'd never cry. Once when King witnessed his brother A.D. emotionally upset his sister Christine, he took a telephone and knocked out A.D. with it. When he and his brother were playing at their home, A.D. slid from a banister and hit into their grandmother, Jennie, causing her to fall unresponsive. King, believing her dead, blamed himself and attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window. Upon hearing that his grandmother was alive, King rose and left the ground where he had fallen.]]> 2022-04-29 13:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164282422 Role in History (What are they famous for?) 40009031 https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164286796 was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest.]]> 2022-04-29 13:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164286796 Significant life events (schooling, jobs, ect.) 40009031 https://padlet.com/40009031/2wwm8ztyjkbpcrsw/wish/2164353871 King's house is bombed 1956 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prompts Montgomery to desegregate buses. 1957 King helps found Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). 1958 Writes Stride Toward Freedom, about the bus boycott. 1959 Visits India to study nonviolence and civil disobedience.

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King's Birth Name Was Michael, Not Martin

 King Entered College At the Age of 15

King Received His Doctorate in Systematic Theology

 King’s 'I Have a Dream' Speech Was Not His First At the Lincoln Memorial


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