Martin Luther King, Jr.

1.       He, his father and his grandfather were pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta. They all attended Morehouse College in Atlanta.

2.       Segregated public schools in Georgia, he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen.

3.       He lead “the first great Negro non-violent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States…” this was the bus boycott which succeeded in making buses unsegregated so  that whites and African Americans could ride the bus as equals. The boycott lasted 382 days. He also met and married Coretta Scott.

4.       He became the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama.

5.       On the 1^st of December 1955 martin Luther king initiated the Bus Boycott in which many African Americans boycotted the busses to protest segregation on public transport. The boycott lasted 382 days and on the 21^st of December 1956, after the Supreme Court declared the laws that required segregation on busses unconstitutional, whites and African Americans could ride the bus as equals.

6.       His goal was to provide new leadership to for the now burgeoning civil rights movement, and to use Christian ideals together with Ghandi’s passive resistance tactics in order to gain equality for black people.

7.       High pressure water jets and police dogs.

8.       On the 28^th of august 1963.

9.       President Lyndon Johnson.

10.   On the 4^th of April 1968 he was assassinated while he was standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. He was there for a protest march in sympathy with the striking garbage workers of that city.

Malcolm X: Article Activity

1.     Malcolm’s original last name was “Little”

2.     Malcolm’s family was large as he was one of 9 children and a few of his family members were quite unstable.

3.     His life in his Youth was dodgy as he spent 3 years in juvenile detention< dropped out of school and started dealing in drugs.

4.     In prison Malcolm changed completely and in the article “saying it was Malcolm’s salvation completely after being released he joined a African American Muslim non-racist group.

5.     Malcolm changed his last name to X because he was completely committed to the Nation of Islam.

6.     Malcolm started fighting racism against African American’s after he was released from prison.

7.     Travelling and visiting many African and Muslim Countries altered Malcolm’s view on white people.

8.     Malcolm’s life ended with him getting assonated while speaking at a rally. Many people came to his funeral.