Martin Luther King was born in a time | | when black people did not have the same rights as others. |
He started to school when | | thirty times for his resistance. |
Miss Lemon, his teacher | | he began to study the teachings of Gandhi. |
Each day the children in his class sang | | refused to give up her seat on a bus. |
He graduated from college when | | "Lift Every Voice and Sing". |
While at Crozer Theological Seminary | | he was only nineteen years old. |
Mahatma Gandhi advocated | | lasted for more than a year. |
In 1955 Rosa Parks | | taught him to take pride in his heritage. |
The bus boycott | | he was five years old. |
In December 1956 the Supreme Court ruled | | that bus segregation was unlawful. |
When blacks were refused | | service at lunch counters they staged "sit-ins". |
Dr. King was put in jail | | passive resistance and peaceful protests. |