Read the following facts about Martin Luther King, Jr and answer the questions
Read the following facts about Martin Luther King, Jr and answer the questions
Fact box 1. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929. 2. Montgomery bus boycott lasted 382 days. During these days of boycott, King was arrested. his home was bombed he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a negro leader of the first rank(一流的)
Fact box: 1. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929. 2. Montgomery bus boycott lasted 382 days. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank(一流的)
3.In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization for the now burgeoning Civil rights movement 4. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over SIX million miles and spoke over twenty five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as welll as numerous articles
3. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization for the now burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. 4. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twentyfive hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles
5. He directed the peaceful march in Washington, d. c. of 250.000 people to whom he delivered his address-1 Have a Dream2 on the steps of the Lincoln memorial 6. He was named man of the year b y Time magazine in 1963
5. He directed the peaceful march in Washington, D.C. of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address — “l Have a Dream” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 6. He was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963
7. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the youngest man to have received the nobel peace prize 8. On the evening of april 4, 1968, he was murdered 9. He became not only the symbolic leader of american blacks but also a world figure
7. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. 8. On the evening of April 4, 1968, he was murdered. 9. He became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure