Martin Luther King – A short biography
Complete with the elements at the bottom
_____________________________ was born in January 1929 in Atlanta, _______________, in the
_______________ of the USA.
His _______________ was a minister in the _______________ church. At only 15, he went to Morehouse
_______________ in Atlanta. At _______________, he became a minister like his father. He went to
Boston University for a doctorate in _______________ . He married ____________ ____________ in
1953, then started _______________ in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1955, in Montgomery, a _______________ woman called Rosa Parks was arrested because she was
sitting in the front of a __________ , where blacks were not allowed. MLK and other leaders organized a
_______________ of the buses: it was the start of the _________________________ movement.
After one year of boycott, the US _____________________ declared bus _______________ was illegal.
In _______________ King became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight for
desegregation . He was very _________ working for civil rights, giving speeches, signing books, travelling
constantly, organizing sit-ins and going to prison repeatedly. In August 1963, King organized a
_______________ in Washington to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of _______________.
At the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, he gave the greatest speech of his career: _____________________
In November 1963, US President _______________ _______________ was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
In July 1964, President _______________ signed the Civil Rights Act. In October 1964, at the age of 35,
Dr Martin Luther King Jr got the _______________ Peace Prize after fighting so hard for
______________ between black people and white people. In 1966, more ____________ movements
emerge with people like the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. The slogan ‘_________________’ is created.
On April 4th 1968, the man who had always insisted on the need for _______________ , the charismatic
__________ of the civil rights movement was shot dead in Memphis, _______________. King’s death at
the age of 39 provoked terrible _______________ in the country. On his tomb was written:
‘_________________________’ . The anniversary of his death is now a national _____________.
17 / 1957 / Baptist / Black Power / black / boycott / bus / busy / civil rights / College /
Coretta Scott / equality / father / Free at last / Georgia / holiday / I have a dream / John
Kennedy / Johnson / leader / march / Martin Luther King Junior / Nobel / non-violence / preaching
/ radical / riots (émeutes) / segregation / slavery / south / Supreme Court / Tennessee / theology.