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Mind Map on Martin Luther King Junior, created by lollilou on 05/12/2013.
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Martin Luther King Junior
1 Jan 15th 1929 - April 4th 1968
2 Civil Rights Activist
2.1 No violence: even when police
and others were violent
towards the protestors
2.2 Led marches
and peaceful
protests
2.2.1 Opposed to Vietnam war
2.2.2 President of Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference
2.2.3 helped poor not just blacks and whites
2.3 Led the Bus Boycott in
Montgomery Alabama which
was successful in intergrating
buses
2.3.1 started through
Rosa Parks not
letting white man
take her seat
2.4 Belief of non violence inspired by Gandhi and by visit to New Delhi
2.5 Youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
2.6 Experience of Racism as a
child: shop assistant could not
serve them at the seats they
were sitting because of colour
of skin, the man and child
walked out
2.7 I have a Dream Speech: August 28th
1963 at Lincoln Memorial
2.7.1 200 000
gathered
2.8 failed in his drive against
racial discrimination in
Chicago
2.8.1 Futile in battle against
desegregation in Public Parks in
Albany
2.8.1.1 Seeked Help janitors,
hospital workers and pacifist
intellectuals: unsuccesful
2.9 House bombed by Klu Klux Klan in 1964
2.10 Arrested for first time in 1964
through Bus Protests
2.11 Birmingham Alabama protests for fair hiring and dapartment store desegration, when savage police response yet Martin Luther King still continued with non violence
2.11.1 they know how to react to violence,
but not non-violence
3 Life
3.1 Born at Atlanta Georgia
3.1.1 Born into Southern, Black Religious Family
3.1.1.1 he moved to Alabama Montgomery
3.1.2 South of US more
Racist than the North
3.2 Father was a minister, than Martin
became a minister too in 1950's
3.3 Married Coretta in 1953 and had children
3.4 Assassinated in Memphis
on a hotel balcony by a
Sniper.
3.4.1 died a martyr
3.5 MLKJ was a christian and believed in equality, love and peace
3.6 his views and words
still ring true today:
show importance of
love and peace and
how to treat everyone
3.6.1 teach, peace, love
and equality
throughout the world.
3.6.1.1 Believed in justice and
teaches us still today non
violence and how to steer the
world away form harm
3.6.2 granting of freedom
4 Christian Beliefs
4.1 Love thy Neighbor
4.2 Jesus did not discriminate
against anyone: he even
healed a Roman girl, who
was different race, status
and religion
4.3 Commandment:
do not kill
4.4 "if someone hits your
right cheek, show him
your left" - Bible
4.5 God accepts all, space in
heaven for all types of people
4.6 Blessed are the
peacemakers,
they are the sons
of God
4.7 "all who live by the sword, perish by the sword"