TheKultureKidz.com » Men http://thekulturekidz.com african american history from a-z Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968) http://thekulturekidz.com/2009/01/martin-luther-king-jr/ http://thekulturekidz.com/2009/01/martin-luther-king-jr/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:50:18 +0000 admin http://aakulturezone.com/kidz/?p=17 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> martin-luther-king-jr Martin Luther King, Jr was born January 15, 1929. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA in 1948. In 1953 King married Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala. They had four children: Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter, and Bernice.

King most famous speech is called ” I Have A Dream.”  He spoke to 250,000 people in the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. by James Earl Ray in 1968. On January 20, 1986 the United States celebrated King’s birthday as a holiday for the first time.

I HAVE A DREAM
(Parts of Speech)

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

Read or listen to the entire speech (new window)

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Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. In 2004, he was elected to be the junior United States Senator from Illinois.

He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.

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]]> http://thekulturekidz.com/2009/01/barack-obama/feed/ 0 Benjamin Banneker (1761-1806) http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/12/benjamin-banneker/ http://thekulturekidz.com/2008/12/benjamin-banneker/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:46:03 +0000 admin http://aakulturezone.com/kidz/?p=5 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker was born in Maryland on November 9, 1731. He is often known as the “First African American Scientist.” He built a working wooden clock that kept accurate time and struck the hours for over 50 years. Banneker studied astronomy and he published an almanac. “Benjamin Banneker’s Almanac” was a top seller from Pennsylvania to Virginia and even into Kentucky from 1792 to 1797.

In 1791, Banneker helped survey the land which is now known as Washington, D.C.

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