Martin Luther King Jr for Kids | Biography Video

today we are going to learn about

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king jr changed course of American history and there is a lot we can learn by observing his life and that is what we are going to do in this

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Martin Luther King Jr was a minister who became the leader of the civil rights movement for which he fought for equal rights of African Americans who were treated so poorly in his time through segregation and discrimination he believed in equality that America should be fair to everyone regardless of race okay we hope you're ready let's learn about his life , this is where our story begins.

Martin Luther King Jr was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, this is obviously a photo of him as a child, we didn't have any baby photos so this is the closest we can get. It would be great if we had baby photos of Martin Luther King Jr. We just don't, so here's a photo of him when he was young. He was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. This is very interesting, it is something that many people do not have. I know that at birth he was given the name Michael King Jr., he was named after his father, so when he was born, his name was Michael King Jr.

That's pretty fascinating, when did he change his name? of the? When did you change your name from Michael King Jr. to martin luther king jr those names are really different well there is a really interesting story behind that name change well martin luther king jr's father was a christian minister and his faith was very, very important to him in 1934 martin luther king jr's father went to germany for an important religious meeting, the trip inspired him greatly and one of the heroes of the christian faith, a man named martin luther, was the inspiration behind the name change.

Martin Luther King's father changed both his name and the name of the young Michael King Jr, so he became known as Martin Luther King Jr. Just as we know him today he was named after the Christian reformer Martin Luther. Here was Martin Luther's family. king jr growing up here is his father martin luther king senior his mother's name was alberta his grandmother jenny his little brother alfred his older sister christine and of course here is martin luther king jr when he was a child and this is his family it's not so amazing now this It's great young Martin loved to sing his mother was a choir director and she would have Martin travel with her and sing he was very talented do you like music and do you like to sing?

Well, the King family lived in this house. Martin learned from a young age about faith and how to stand up for what you believe. It was in this house where Martin grew up and learned all the values. He carried it through his life. Then, as a teenager, Martin attended Booker T Washington High School. He was known for being a talented speaker and was part of the school's debate team. He was so talented that in his junior year he won a speech contest in Dublin, Georgia, but on his way back to Atlanta he was forced to stand up during the bus ride just because he was African American.

He was so unfair that he later said he was the angriest he had ever been in his life. You see that African Americans suffered discrimination, they were treated badly, simply put. because of the color of his skin and if that sounds really unfair it's because it's this man and this boy who have to stand during the bus ride and it's not fair and this is something that needed to change because discrimination is the wrong part of discrimination against African Americans was something called segregation segregation means separated by race when martin luther king jr was growing up this was a big part of the culture that African Americans had to use their own schools their own trains their own theaters sometimes even their own hospitals their own bathrooms their own libraries their own lunch counters all kinds of things and it wasn't fair because the ones they had to use usually weren't that pretty and the only reason they weren't allowed to use the other one was because of their race now.

After high school, Martin Luther King Jr continued his education earning degrees at Morehouse College's Crosser Theological Seminary and eventually earned his doctorate at Boston University. He studied to be a minister. A doctorate also known as a doctorate is the highest educational degree that can receive, that means martin luther king jr obtained the highest educational degree you can receive, that is so amazing he loved education, his formal title became dr martin luther king jr and although doctors in front of his name does not mean that was a doctor, it means he got his Ph.D. or Ph.D. and for the rest of this

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King. It was around this time that Dr. King started his own family, he married Coretta Scott and had his first child the same year. received his doctorate from him the king family had four children yes, dr. king had four children and this is incredible after obtaining his doctorate dr. king began his life's work fighting for equality dr. king was inspired by the example of mahatma gandhi, you can see it well Here Mahatma Gandhi was a civil rights leader who lived here in the country of India. Gandhi used peaceful protests to fight discrimination and that is exactly what Dr.

King wanted to do as well. Dr. King led marches and protests, gave speeches and showed that change can happen without violence there are peaceful ways to show that discrimination is wrong Dr. King was arrested 29 times while fighting for equality even when people mistreated him he refused to give up he knew he was doing the right thing and he wasn't afraid to suffer for doing the right thing. The right thing is to stop discrimination now during this time. Dr. King gave many speeches, but in 1963 he gave his most famous speech. He gave the speech on August 28, 1963 during the march on Washington in front of 250,000 people, which is to say a lot of people.

The speech was later called I Have a Dream, so if you ever hear that phrase, I Have a Dream, think of Dr. King. It comes from Dr. King's speech. I have a dream. The speech shares the dream and vision that Dr. King had of an America where all people were treated. with equality and respect, is considered one of the best speeches in American history. I have a dream, I remember when I was in high school when I was giving speeches and he won that competition in Dublin and then on his way back he was so mistreated and getting angry about it and later in life being able to give a speech in front of 250 000 people with the message of treating people with equality and respect and one of the greatest speeches in American history, it is absolutely incredible that in 1964 the civil rights law was cited right there, you could see that Dr .King was there when it was signed and made discrimination and segregation illegal in the eyes of the law.

The civil rights movement that Dr. King led did what so many people thought he could never do. They changed. the law of the land to make it more equal and more just then, in 1964, a few months after the civil rights act was passed, dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize and became the youngest winner in history. He was only 35 years old. The doctor. king continued to make speeches. and hold protests, the civil rights law was just the beginning, but on April 4, 1968, while staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. King was shot and killed by someone trying to stop his message, He literally gave everything.

His whole life was given. To the cause of equality and the end of discrimination and segregation, Dr. King had made the ultimate sacrifice. The man who killed Dr. King tried to stop Dr. King's message, but Dr. King's message could not be stopped. This was just the beginning. You see, Dr. King's life on mission has inspired. Countless millions of people and this is incredible. The Lorraine Motel was later transformed into the National Civil Rights Museum. A place you can visit and learn even more about the message of equality and civil rights. Is incredible. Dr. King's legacy of equality and racial justice continues.

This day and this is incredible, it has had its own holiday since 1986. Every third Monday in January is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We celebrate the life and legacy of a man who gave everything to fight for racial equality and this is incredible. In 2011 a monument was completed in Washington DC in honor of Dr. king and this monument is not far from where he gave his i have a dream speech back in 1963. that is the life and legacy of dr martin luther king jr, a man who changed the course of american history whose legacy of equality continues to this day.

Today thank you for watching this homeschool pop video about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We hope you learned many new things that you can share with others and that you feel inspired and motivated to make a positive difference in the world. other people's lives. live we also hope to see you in the next video