Martin Luther King

Segregation between black and white.

• Montgomery is the state capital of Alabama. • It was one of the most racially segregated cities in the USA

during the 1950s.• In Montgomery, it was the law that black people travelling on

the buses could not sit at the front, even if the seats were not occupied. If all the seats at the front were occupied for the white people sitting on the bus, a black person would have to get up off their seats at the back and give it up to a white person. Black people had to pay their fares at the top of the bus and enter at the back. If a black person did not obey they were fined and jailed.

Rosa Parks

• “…when the history books are written in the future, somebody will have to say, ‘There lived a race of people, a black people … who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights. And thereby they injected a new meaning into the veins of history and of civilization.‘”

• —Martin Luther King, Jr., December 5, 1955

Questions…• Who was Martin Luther King?

• How were black people treated during the 1950s?• Who was the lady who would not give up her seat on the bus?• What did Martin Luther King do for the Montgomery Bus

Boycott in 1956?• How was Martin Luther King treated by white people?• Was the Montgomery Bus Boycott successful?• What Bill was passed in 1964?• What happened to Martin Luther King?• Can you see any similarities between Martin Luther King and

Jesus?