Great Minds: Martin Luther King Jr. by Lydia Saldana

Martin Luther King Jr. portrait with text about his life and civil rights activism.

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- Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta.
- His father was a preacher and his mother was a teacher.
- He had an older sister and a younger brother.
- He skipped two grades and went to Morehouse College at age 15, graduating with a degree in sociology.
- He earned a doctorate in theology from Boston University.
- He became a civil rights activist after being inspired by his father and the injustices he witnessed.
- Segregation meant different races were kept separate and given unequal treatment (e.g., education, jobs, transportation).
- He fought for equal rights for African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s.
- He believed peaceful protests were the best way to create change.
- One of his first protests was the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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