Number eight, exercise six.0:10
Listen to the text Martin Luther King and do the task from Exercise 6.0:14
During the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. Was a famous leader in the movement to give civil rights for black Americans.0:26
In those years, Afro Americans were denied many civil rights.0:38
For example, in many places black Americans could not vote, go to the same restaurants as white people or get good jobs to because of their colour.0:43
King worked to make the government guarantee civil rights for black Americans.0:55
King and his followers used peaceful methods, protest marches and boycotts to force the government to change the law.1:00
King began to work in Montgomery, Alabama where he served as pastor of a Baptist Church.1:11
In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman of Montgomery, was arrested because she hadn't given up her seat to a white passenger in the bus.1:18
This arrest led to a boycott of city buses organised by King and other black leaders.1:30
For over a year, thousands of Afro Americans in Montgomery stopped riding city buses.1:38
Finally, the law in the city of Montgomery was changed and King became known throughout the country.1:46
Probably the most famous of King's protest actions was held in August 1963 in Washington D.C. more than 200,000 people met in the Capitol to march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.1:53
Millions more watched the march on television.2:11
Under King's leadership, the civil rights movement won important victories.2:15
In 1964, Congress passed a law that stopped unfair treatment of black Americans in public places.2:20
In 1965, a protest organised by King resulted in a federal law that gave voting rights to Black Americans.2:29
On April, 4, 1968, King was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.2:39
He was just 39 years old.2:46
Now his birthday in January is a national holiday in the usa.2:49
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