THE LIVES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND MALCOLM X
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
4) Examine the roles of civil rights advocates including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. 's
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Born _________________________________
- Received a BA from Morehouse College in Sociology in 1948
- Received a Bachelor of Divinity from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951
- Met _________________________________ and married her on June 18th, 1953
- Received a Ph. D. in Systematic Theology from Boston University in 1955
- In 1953, MLK Jr. was appointed pastor of the _______________________________________
in Montgomery, Alabama
- 1955-56 MLK Jr. led the ________________________________________________________
- King was arrested during the boycott for his role as an organizer
- In 1957, King helped found the SCLC to encourage _____________________________ protest
- In 1963, King was again arrested, this time in Birmingham, during a protest
- While in jail, he wrote the
“______________________________________________________”
- Later in 1963 he led the _________________________________________________________
- Between 200,000 and 500,000 people heard King deliver the _____________________ speech
- On October 14, 1964, King became the youngest recipient of the ________________________
for his policy of non-violent resistance
- In 1966 King moved into the _____________ in Chicago to share in the life experience of
many northern blacks...he decided that in many ways the North was worse than the South
- By 1967 and 68 the push of the Civil Rights Movement had begun to lose force as the nation
became increasingly focused on Vietnam...a war King himself had decried beginning in 1965
- Martin Luther King Jr. was _________________________ on April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, TN.
Malcolm X
- Born ______________________________________ May 19th, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska
- 1931: Malcolm’s ____________________________ was killed by white supremacists
- 1939: Malcolm’s mother is declared __________________________________ and committed
- Graduated from Junior High at the top of his class but dropped out of High School after a
teacher told him his dream of becoming a lawyers was “no realistic goal for a nigger”
- As a teen, Malcolm moved to Harlem where he began dealing drugs, gambling, pimping,
racketeering, and theft
- When the U.S. Army drafted him he avoided service by telling the medical officer he couldn’t
wait to get a gun so he could “kill some crackers”
- In January 1946 Malcolm, now known as “Detroit Red”, went to _______________ for robbery
- While in prison Malcolm became involved with the ___________________________________
- In 1953, after leaving prison, Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X
- For members of the NOI the X symbolized the rejection of their _________________________
- Around the same time, the _____________________________ began to investigate Malcolm X
- From 1960-1964 Malcolm became a speaker for the NOI and a violent revolutionary
- During 1964 and 1965 Malcolm X went to _________________ and met many Muslims of
many races and he began to believe that integration could work in the United States
- The differences between Malcolm X and ____________________________ began to diminish
- Still, Malcolm X believed in violent resistance not the pacifism supported by MLK Jr.
- In 1964 Malcolm X began receiving death threats and on Feb. 14th, 1965 his house was firebombed
- Malcolm X was ________________________________ at the age of 39 (Feb 21st, 1965).