National Geographic Readers - Martin Luther King, Jr: Level 4

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Everything you need to know about Martin Luther King, Jr.!

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Level 4 • Independent reader

LEVEL 4

ISBN 978-0-00-831737-9

Adapted by Collins for readers of British English.

Notes for teachers and parents available on collins.co.uk.

9 780008 317379

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n i t r a M s a W o Wh ? . r J , g n i K r e h t Lu Can you imagine a world where laws kept black and white people apart? Where black children couldn’t swim in the same pools as white children, or go to the same schools? A place where laws made it hard for black people to vote? Or where a black person had to stand up on a bus so a white person could sit down?

This world was real. All these things happened in the United States.

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C CIVIL RIGHTS: The rrights that all p people have to be ttreated equally

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Statues at the US National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee

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Martin Luther King, Jr., worked hard to change rules so they would be the same for whites and blacks. He didn’t do it by fighting.

He helped change unfair laws by making people think. He did it by making people feel. He did it with his words.

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P PROTEST: To say yyou don’t agree w with something

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Protesters

Dr. King marches in a protest.

People who protest are called protesters.

When protesters want unfair things changed, they sometimes march to show others that they do not agree with what is happening.

Lots of black people and white people helped Dr. King protest peop against those laws. This made again many people angry because they man didn didn’t want change. But in the end, the protesters won, and the rules changed forever.

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p U g n Growi Dr. King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the USA. He was named after his father, but he was known as ML. ML was small but strong, and he rode bikes with his brother and sister.

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ML s ML’s boyhood home on Au Auburn Avenue in Atlanta is open to the public.

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The boyhood home of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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ML’s father was a minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

ML’s father was the minister of a church.

He taught his children to stand up for what is right. He taught them to speak out against what is wrong. He taught them that all people deserve justice, which means that they should be treated fairly.

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When he was six, ML’s best friend told him he was no longer allowed to play with ML. Why? Because ML was black and his friend was white.

Segregation laws were meant to keep black people and white people apart.

They kept children apart, too. ML felt bad. Why wasn’t he good enough to play with his friend?

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