INTRODUCTION
A: Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most renowned civil rights leaders in the U.S. history.
B: Martin Luther King was assassinated because of his position on racial discrimination.
II: Orienting Material:
Luther helped expand the rights of many African Americans.
The victories and success of his non-violence movement convinced many Whites to welcome the changes that Luther’s leadership brought to the U.S. (Harrison, 2007).
BODY
Beginning the Journey:
A: Born in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was raised in Atlanta during the Jim Crow laws era, which made racial discrimination and segregation an everyday reality for African Americans in the South.
B: At Atlanta’s Morehouse College, Luther embraced the idea that religion was a powerful tool for spearheading social change.
C: After receiving a doctorate degree from Boston University School of Theology, he returned to the South where he became a pastor at Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Harrison, 2007).
March on Washington
In 1963, Luther led nearly 200,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial that overlooks Washington Memorial.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
When police apprehended Rosa Parks for refusing to surrender her seat for a white person, King Jr. led a boycott in a bus system in Montgomery (Harrison, 2007).
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A: Dr. King Jr. teamed up with other leaders of civil rights movement to create Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Birmingham Campaign
A: The SCLC spearheaded the campaign as an effort to end discrimination.
CONCLUSION
A: Martin Luther had the greatest short-term and long-term impact on America’s Civil Rights Movement.
B: He dedicated his life and devoted his time to a nonviolent struggle that sought to establish an American Society that was free of racial discrimination or segregation.
C: King’s legacy includes fighting racial prejudice, non-violent protest and pursuing social justice.
Reference
Harrison, N. (2007). Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? New York: McGraw-Hill Press
