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A PICTURE BOOK OF

Martin Luther King, Jr.

by

David A. Adler

illustrated by

Robert Casilla

A Picture Book of

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Joan Brathwaite
D.A.A.

For Carmen and Little Robert
R.C.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-0770-5 (hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-0847-4 (paperback)

ISBN-10: 0-8234-0770-5 (hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-8234-0847-7 (paperback)

HOLIDAY HOUSE is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Text copyright 1989 by David A. Adler
Illustrations copyright 1989 by Robert Casilla
All rights reserved
Printed and bound in August 2010 at Tien Wah Press, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.
18 20 22 23 21 19
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adler, David A.
A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr. / written by David A.
Adler ; illustrated by Robert Casilla. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: A brief, illustrated, biography of the Baptist minister
and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent
civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal
rights.

1. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 19291968 Juvenile literature.
2. Afro-Americans Biography Juvenile literature. 3. Baptists
United States Clergy Biography Juvenile literature. 4. Civil
rights workers United States Biography Juvenile literature.
5. Afro-Americans Civil rights Juvenile literature. [1. King,
Martin Luther, Jr., 19291968. 2. Clergy. 3. Civil rights workers.
4. Afro-Americans Biography.] I. Casilla, Robert, ill.
II. Title.
E185.97.K5A63 1989
323.40924 dc19 [B] [92]
89-1930 CIP AC
ISBN 0-8234-0770-5
ISBN 0-8234-0847-7 (pbk.)

M ARTIN L UTHER K ING, J R. was one of Americas great leaders. He was a powerful speaker, and he spoke out against laws which kept black people out of many schools and jobs. He led protests and marches demand
ing fair laws for all people.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martins father was a pastor. His mother had been a teacher. Martin had an older sister, Willie Christine, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel.

Young Martin liked to play baseball, football and bas-ketball. He liked to ride his bicycle and to sing. He often sang in his fathers church.

Martin (center) with his brother Alfred Daniel
(left) and his sister Willie Christine (right)

Young Martin played in his backyard with his friends. One day he was told that two of his friends would no longer play with him, because they were white and he was black.

Martin cried. He didnt un-derstand why the color of his skin should matter to anyone.

Martins mother told him that many years ago black people were brought in chains to America and sold as slaves. She told him that long before Martin was born the slaves had been set free. However, there were still some people who did not treat black people fairly.

In Atlanta, where Martin lived, and elsewhere in the United States, there were White Only signs. Black people were not allowed in some parks, pools, hotels, restaurants and even schools. Blacks were kept out of many jobs.

Frederick Douglass

George Washington Carver

Harriet Tubman

Martin learned to read at home before he was old enough to start school. All through his childhood, he read books about black leaders.

Martin was a good student. He finished high school two years early and was just fifteen when he entered Morehouse College in Atlanta. At college Martin de-cided to become a minister.

After Martin was graduated from Morehouse, he stud-ied for a doctorate at Boston University. While he was there he met Coretta Scott. She was studying music. They fell in love and married.

In 1954 Martin Luther King, Jr. began his first job as a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama. The next year Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested in Montgomery. She had been sitting just behind the White Only section on a bus. When all the seats in that section were taken, the driver told her to get up, so a white man could have her seat. Rosa Parks refused.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a protest. Blacks throughout the city refused to ride the buses. Dr. King said, There comes a time when people get tired of being kicked about.

One night, while Dr. King was at a meeting, someone threw a bomb into his house.

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