Martin Luther King (топик на английском)

MARTIN LUTHER KING (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King was another outstanding person of the United States. He was the first black American who won the full civil rights for black people.
Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, to the family of a black pastor. He graduated from the University of Boston where he got a doctor's degree in theology in 1955. Later he was a pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery where black people lived in strong limitation of their civil rights. The blacks of the city followed King who believed in peaceful protests against the government. Black people of the city went to restaurants and demanded the same rights as white customers. They sat there for hours until they were served. A lot of them were arrested.
In 1963 a big march took place in Washington, D.C. It was organized by Martin Luther King. About 250,000 Americans took part in it.
In 1968 King was killed by a white man and the nation was shocked. Martin Luther King still remains a great person in American history and there is Martin Luther
King Day in the USA when people remember what he did for the black people of the country.


Vocabulary:
be served [s3:vd] быть обслуженным
demand [di'ma:nd] требовать
doctor's degree ['dttktazdi'gri:] докторская степень
full civil rights ['fuk'srvil'raits] полные гражданские права
government ['gAv(3)mant] правительство
pastor ['pa:sta] духовный пастырь
peaceful ['pi:sfbl] мирный
remain [n'mein] оставаться
strong limitation [lstrorjllimi'terj'(3)n] сильное ограничение
theology [9i't)l3d3i] теология


Questions:
1. Why is Martin Luther an outstanding person?
2. What do you know about his family and education?
3. What protest actions did King and his followers do? What did they protest against?
4. What march took place in 1963?
5. How did King die? Is there any holiday to remember King?
 

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