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It’s crucial for students to grasp the importance of equality and justice in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspiring legacy encourages students to be aware of social issues and strive for positive change in society. Our free Martin Luther King Jr. worksheets include four printable pages of student handouts and activities to help you teach this topic. You can also pair these worksheets with our  free Martin Luther King Jr. Google Slides .

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Martin Luther King Jr. Worksheets Packet {Free Printables} Post Preview: In this post, you’ll get a free eight page Martin Luther King Jr. worksheets packet for elementary and middle school students.

Whether school is in session for your kids for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday or not, Dr. King’s birthday is the perfect time to talk to your kids (or students) about the Civil Rights movement, Dr. King’s work, and the work that still needs to be done today.

These are heavy, but vitally important, topics. I think it’s especially important to present information about these struggles to children who don’t know what it’s like to have these types of trials in their lives.

As a supplement to learning about Dr. King, I have a free eight-page Martin Luther King Jr. worksheets and printables packet. A download form is much farther down in this post.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Worksheets Packet

The MLK worksheets packet is nine pages long. It contains eight pages of activities that are perfect for children in elementary school, but also may be appropriate for kids in middle school as well.

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The Free Martin Luther King Jr. Printables Packet includes:

• Martin Luther King Jr. information page
• MLK Fact Sheet for Kids to Fill Out – including a small coloring area and room to write a quote, information about his legacy, information about his dream, and other interesting facts
• A notebooking page with a black and white line drawing of Dr. King (that could be colored in) and writing lines
• A page to write about both yourself and Dr. King and then fill in a Venn Diagram
• I have a dream booklet page
• MLK alphabetical order page
• Martin Luther King Jr. word search
• MLK word scramble with a word bank

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The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Contrary to popular beliefs, a great leader is born. It is the impeccable qualities that some individuals are born with. This is not to say that people cannot learn and adopt these qualities, but for the most part, leadership qualities are innate.

History is full of great leaders, who have achieved great things in their lifetime, leaving a legacy to learn from, and from that lot, one leader that everyone knows of, and someone who continues to inspire people with his words and his resilience towards equality of people is none other than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, a man who spent a majority of his life, fighting for

What makes Dr. Martin Luther King a remarkable leader is the courage and integrity that he embodied throughout his life. More than that, not at any point did Martin Luther King Jr give up on his dreams which had become the dreams of the African Americans. His dreams, aspirations, and efforts to date resonate with people worldwide, irrespective of their background or race.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was not only preaching and educating people around him, but he also continued to educate himself. These are a few reasons to look up to leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and hold onto their incredible legacy.

Childhood and Education

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was born on January 15, 1929, to Michael King Sr and Alberta King. As a young child, Martin attended local grammar and high schools until enrolling in Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1944. Unlike his father, he did not intend to enter the ministry until Dr. Benjamin Mays changed his mindset and convinced him that a religious career would also be intellectually fulfilling. Dr. Martin was passionate about education, and after completing his graduate studies, he also achieved a doctorate.

Like many other African American children, Dr. Martin also experienced racial prejudice at a very tender age. That was enough to inspire him to work towards ensuring people of all colors wholly experienced quality and justice. Despite his experience of racial bias, Dr. Martin remained a kind individual who believed that people could achieve social change social by peacefully rejecting laws that instigate injustice.

Activism Work and Civil Rights Movement

Dr. Martin eventually returned to the South, where he took the position of pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. This was when the king first became directly involved in the civil rights movement, as he helped mobilize the African American community during the Montgomery Bus boycott. This essentially put Dr. Martn in the public's view, but he managed not to get arrested and dealt with violent harassment that came as an evident consequence of his involvement in the boycott.

Soon enough king became a hero nationally and simultaneously gained popularity and importance as a key figure in the civil rights movement. Growing more and more involved in the struggles of African American and segregation, he brought many African American leaders in 1957 and started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

After being elected president of the conference, Dr. Martin also helped other communities organize and conduct peaceful and non-violent protests against discrimination. During this phase of his life, Dr. Martin became one of the most influential social leaders of the modern American civil rights movement.

His efforts were unprecedented, and in 1963, he extended his activism towards one of the most divided cities in America at that time, Birmingham, Alabama. Police brutality was at a peak as they assaulted young African Americans. The outrage poured in nationally and firmly instated the need for civil rights legislation. Dr. Martin wrote the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" during his campaign here, which highlighted his philosophies and tactics.

Dr. Martin was a leader who dedicated his life to bringing forth much-needed change in America, but his dreams were larger than life, and today they have influenced many across the world to adopt his peaceful attitude towards changing and tackling the societal issues we face. His input in the civil rights movement still gave courage to people, and his speeches which became worldwide famous, still inspire people to work for people.

Dr. Martin was on a constant move to fighting inequality in America, so unsurprisingly, he was also involved in driving the March for Jobs and Freedom. Over a quarter-million people attended the March, which was also when Dr. Martin gave his stellar "I have a Dream" speech. Not only did this speech reach the hearts of people globally then and even today, this speech allowed people to acknowledge him as a social change leader fully.

By this time, Dr. Martin had become popular, his efforts widely recognized by the people of America. After doing so much for his society and race, one would assume he was quite old when he was still young. In fact, in 1964, at only 35 years old, Dr. Martin was the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize at the time. Since the start of his career, Dr. Martin has encouraged people to choose peace, even when fighting against injustice.

In 1964, his efforts paid off when Congress eliminated racial segregation across the United States by approving the Civil Rights Act. After a prolonged battle against racism, this bill officially made it illegal to discriminate against African Americans or other minorities in almost all areas.

A long battle, but it was because of Dr. Martin and others like himself who relentlessly fought for the rights of African American people and minorities living in America.

In a nutshell

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr has undoubtedly lived a fulfilling life, a life that he dedicated to the African American community, striving for a peaceful and accepting society where people of different color could live without fear of being isolated or assaulted just for being different. His career was relatively short, as he was assassinated at the young age of 39, but his courage and messages of peace and acceptance still echo around the world. In a short span, he became the leader of millions who looked up to him for his strength.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights and his “I Have a Dream” speech.

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Biography Fact File

Name Martin Luther King, Jr.

Date of Birth January 15, 1929

Date of Death King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee .

Place of Birth Atlanta, Georgia

Birth Family Rev. Martin Luther Kings, Sr. and Alberta Williams King.

Marriage/Spouse Coretta Scott

Children 4 children Yolanda, Martin Luther III, Dexter and Bernice Albertine.

Education King attended Booker T. Washington High School. He skipped ninth and twelfth grade, and enter Morehouse College at age 15 without formally graduating from high school. In 1948, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary. He grated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951.

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Reason for Fame King was also an activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.

Additional Information King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and in 1965 King was awarded the American Liberties Medallion by the American Jewish Committee. He was awarded at least fifty honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the U.S. and elsewhere. In 1971, King was posthumously awarded the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his “Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam”. Six years later, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was award to King by Jimmy Carter. King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.

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• Born as Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. He grew up in a loving and nurturing environment, but he could not be completely shielded from racism. His parents, especially his father, fought against racial prejudice and discouraged any sense of class superiority in his children. This left a mark on MLK Jr. as he grew up.
• MLK Jr. attended Booker T. Washington High School and skipped the 9th and 11th grades. He entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15 and, in 1948, he earned a degree in sociology.
• He then attended the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania where he became the valedictorian of the class of 1951.

AS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

• The night that Rosa Parks was arrested, the local civil rights leaders, with King as the leader, met and planned a citywide bus boycott. In his speech he said: ”We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience. We have sometimes given our white brothers the feeling that we liked the way we were being treated. But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.”
• This fueled the civil rights struggle in Alabama, but due to this bus boycott, which lasted 382 days, his home was attacked. The African-American community then took legal action against the city ordinance, arguing that it was unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court’s separate is never equal decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case. Eventually, the law mandating segregated public transportation was lifted.
• In January 1957, Martin Luther King Jr, Ralph Abernathy, and some other ministers and civil rights activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to organize the power of black churches. This led to mass meetings and discussions of race-related issues.
• In 1959, inspired by Gandhi’s success, MLK Jr. traveled to India and was further inspired to continue his commitment to America’s civil rights issues. He encouraged people, even the young, to use nonviolent methods and, by August 1960, the segregation at lunch counters in 27 southern cities was ended.
• By 1960, he gained national notoriety and returned to Atlanta to become a co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church. His fight for civil rights resulted in him being imprisoned on multiple occasions, so much so that John F. Kennedy included his name in one of his speeches, as he showed concern with regard to MLK Jr.
• On August 28, 1963, the historic March for Peaceful Change drew more than 200,000 people’s attention. It was at this gathering when MLK Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech was said.
• MLK Jr. continued his efforts throughout the 1960s and from 1965 to 1967 he expanded his civil rights efforts to other larger American cities.
• However, he encountered even greater challenges. He linked other forms of oppression such as poverty and began to speak out against the Vietnam War. He broadened his base by forming a multiracial coalition to address the economic and unemployment problems of disadvantaged people.
• Protests and jail simultaneously plagued his later years. In the spring of 1968, he had his last crusade. He gave his final and oddly prophetic speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” in which he told supporters at the Mason Temple in Memphis: ”I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”
• The next day, while standing on a balcony outside Lorraine Motel, MLK Jr. was struck by a sniper’s bullet. The assassin was James Earl Ray, who was later sentenced to 99 years in prison.
• His life and death had a seismic impact on race relations in the US. Years after his death, he is still the most widely known African-American leader of his era.

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• Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was highly publicized by the media. We can see a lot of press coverage about him and his family.

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What is mlk most famous for.

Martin Luther King Jr. is a civil rights legend. In the 1950s, Martin Luther King led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through peaceful protests. His speeches were very famous and had a big impact on people’s thoughts.

What did Martin Luther King fight for?

Martin Luther King Jr. was a very famous person who fought for civil rights in the mid-20th century. He used nonviolent resistance to try and get equal rights for black people. For this, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Who first said I Have a Dream?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Organizers of the event, officially known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, had hoped 100,000 people would attend.

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Martin Luther King

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a few facts about MLK

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