Martin Luther King Jr.

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Crossing the Threshold

One influence of King's nonviolent method was Henry David Thoreau essay on Civil Disobedience, Which King read in his student years of school. King was influenced by the idea of refusing to cooperate with a evil government

Meeting the Mentor

King was advised by Veteran African-American civil rights activist Bryard Rustin. Harris Wofford and Glenn Smiley where Kings white activists

Martin Luther King Jr.

Call to Adventure

It started when a fifteen year old school girl from Montgomery wouldn't give up her seat for a white man in protest

Ordinary World

Martin Jr., was a middle child with older sister, Willie Chistine King and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams. King sang at his church at the 1939 Atlanta premeire of the movie Gone With the Wind

Tests, Allies, Enemies

Kings allies are Bryard Rustin, Harris Wofford. King had many enemies since he started the Civil rights including the police. His tests where all the people who thought that black people had to have less freedom then all the rest of the population.

Ordeal, Death or Rebirth

King got assassinated on March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee to support the black sanitary public work employees.

Reward, Seizing the Sword

King's death had a big impact on the world internationally. King's legacy influenced the black consensus movement and the civil rights movement in South Africa. King had more than 730 cities named after him in the USA in his legacy and had won many awards. His dream of black people being equal as white people has come true but it was to late for Martin Luther King Jr. to see.