____, Georgia. Both his __father___ and grandfather were ____ministers______. His mother was a schoolteacher who taught him how to _____read______ before he went to school. Young Martin was an excellent ___student___ in school.
After graduating from _____college_________ and getting married, Dr. King became a minister and moved to ___Alabama_____. During the 1950's, Dr. King became active in the movement for civil rights. He participated in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus _____boycott____ and many other peaceful demonstrations that protested the unfair treatment of ___African-Americans__. He won the ____Nobel____ Peace Prize in 1964.
Dr. King was _assassinated ____ on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, ___Tennessee______. Commemorating the life of a tremendously important leader, we celebrate Martin Luther King Day each year in ___January____, the month of his birth.
| Atlanta father read boycott college | Nobel civil rights assassinated January ministers | student Alabama Tennessee born African-Americans |
