Read the following facts about Martin Luther King, Jr and answer the questions. Read the following facts about Martin Luther King, Jr and answer the questions. Fact box:1. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929.2. Montgomery bus boycott lasted 382 days. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank( 一流的 ). 3. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization for the now burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.4. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. 5. He directed the peaceful march in Washington, D.C. of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address — “l Have a Dream” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.6. He was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963. 7. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.8. On the evening of April 4, 1968, he was murdered.9. He became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. 1. What did Martin lead in Montgomery, Alabama? He led a boycott of the buses in Montgomery from 1955 to 1956.2. What was the famous speech that Martin gave in Washington, D.C.? On August 28, 1963 Martin gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.Questions: 3. Where did he give “I Have A Dream”? He spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.4. What great honor did Martin receive in...
