Martin+Luther+King+Jr.+-+Civil+Rights+Movement

=**Essential Question:**= //How effective was Martin Luther King Jr. speech "I Have a Dream" in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's.//

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 * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, and was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. During his lifetime, King, was viewed as a major and influential leader in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. With a profession of a baptist minister, he became a civil rights activist early in his lifetime, and was most known for his participation in the March on Washington in 1963, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Also, King was the youngest person ever to achieve the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts and success on ending segregation and discrimination against those people of a different race through his Gandhi like methods of civil disobedience and non-violent protest. On April 4, 1968, however, King was assassinated on his balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.**

media type="custom" key="782631" The March on Washington in 1963, was one of the many protests Martin Luther King Jr. participated in and in this he gave his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream". From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech with great pride and integrity. The March on Washington was led by the 'Big Six' organizations and was initially meant to show the dramatic and terrible conditions of southern blacks, as well as it gave these organizations a way to appeal in front of a seat of power in Washington D.C. John F. Kennedy, who was president at the time, disapproved of the whole protest, but Martin Luther King Jr. was one of a small group of people who went against the presidents wishes and changed the focus and way of the march. The speech Martin Luther King Jr. presented shocked the crowd, getting them pumped up for the movement to progress.

This speech was looked at as one of the finest speeches in American History. This speech was presented to thousands of people, and King stood there speaking to his supporters about his dream of racial equality. The effect this speech had on the country was recognized soon after with many ground breaking movements within the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. The speech in general gave much needed publicity to the whole movement and also put the much needed stress and pressure on the Kennedy administration to further the the Civil Rights Legislature in Congress and ultimately led to Lyndon B. Johnson passing the Civil Rights Act in 1964. This then led to end of the Civil Rights Movement with the passing of the Voting Rights Act, and therefore led to Equal rights for all persons no matter their race. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was and will be a forever famous and well-known speech, and allowed Martin Luther King to be the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

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