Note Taking Guide for Martin Luther King, Jr., PowerPoint Presentation

Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on Tuesday, January

15, ________________. His father and mother were

Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta _____________

King. He married ___________ on Alabama on June 18,

1953. King Jr. and his wife had four children. He

attended the Atlanta University Laboratory School and

____________ T. Washington High School. In 1948, he

graduated from _______________ College with a B.A.

degree in Sociology. He was awarded a Bachelor of

Divinity degree from Crozer in 1951. He received a

Ph.D. degree from _____________ on June 5, 1955.

King, Jr., entered Christian ministry and was ordained

in ___________________ at Ebenezer Baptist Church,

Atlanta, Georgia. He was the pastor of

____________Avenue from September 1954 to November

1959. From 1960 until his death in 1968, he was co-

pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church and

____________ of the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference. He was elected president of the

Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization

responsible for successful Montgomery Bus ___________

from 1955 to 1956 (381 days). He was a _____________

and president of Southern Christian Leadership

Conference from 1957 to 1968. King Jr. was shot while

standing on the ___________of the Lorraine Motel in

Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. He was shot by

James Earl Ray. Dr. King had been in Memphis to help

lead _______________workers in a protest against low

wages and intolerable conditions.

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