https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq Martin Luther King Jr. en-us 2021-05-21 02:44:21 UTC 2025-11-05 22:16:19 UTC hello@padlet.com rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546419183 Date of Birth: January 15, 1929
Date of Death: April 4, 1968
Born: Atlanta, GA

]]> 2021-05-21 02:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546419183 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546435555 He led the Civil Rights Movement. He organized a number of marches and protests. He was a key figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. ]]> 2021-05-21 02:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546435555 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546453363 One of the things Martin is famous for was his "I Have a Dream" speech where he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. This influenced the Federal government to take more direct actions to more fully realize racial equality.]]> 2021-05-21 03:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546453363 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546468296 The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965. On March 9th, Martin led roughly 2,000 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but found Highway 80 blocked again by state troopers. Martin paused the marcher and led them in prayer, whereupon the troopers stepped aside. ]]> 2021-05-21 03:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546468296 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546492693 Martin was a Baptist minister who endorsed nonviolent civil disobedience became the leader of the Boycott. Following November 1956 ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, the bus boycott ended successfully. ]]> 2021-05-21 03:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546492693 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546503596 Martin fought for the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act prohibits the discrimination in the sale or rental of housing because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability.]]> 2021-05-21 03:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546503596 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546511404 The March of Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when 250,00 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. This was where Martin delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. ]]> 2021-05-21 03:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546511404 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546511744 "If you can't fly then run, if you can't run the walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.]]> 2021-05-21 03:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546511744 rumoney24718011 https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546531647 Martin led a civil rights movement that focused on nonviolent protests. His vision of equality and civil disobedience changed the lives of his children and the children of all oppressed people. He changed the lives of African Americans in his time and subsequent decades.]]> 2021-05-21 03:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rumoney24718011/fxzc295v703ujmgq/wish/1546531647