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Martin Luther King Jr. Herweck

Level 2.9

Word Count: 788

Reading Level Correlations:

Early Intervention Level 20

Guided Reading Level M

DRA Level 28

Lexile 780L

Martin Luther King Jr. grew

up being discriminated

against because of the color

of his skin. Walk in his shoes

to learn about his experiences

as a child. This book explains

how Martin used peaceful

protests to become one of

the worlds greatest

Civil Rights leaders.

TCM 14641

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Martin Luther

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Dona Herweck

Image Credits

Cover Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image; p.2 Studio_G/Shutterstock; p.3 Cico/Shutterstock;

p.4 Martin Luther King, Jr. Center; p.5 LC-DIG-fsa-8a03228; p.6 The Granger Collection, New

York; p.7 top: Hulton Archive/Getty Images; p.7 bottom: NY Daily News/Getty Images;

p.8 left: Martin Luther King, Jr. Center; p.8 right: John Elk III/Alamy; p.9 Time & Life Pictures/

Getty Image; p.10 Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images; p.11 Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image;

p.12 ullstein bild/The Granger Collection; p.13 top: The Granger Collection, New York;

p.13 bottom: Bettmann/CORBIS; p.14-15 Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image; p.15 bottom:

Zhukov Oleg/Shutterstock; p.16 left: Donald Uhrbrock/Getty Images; p.16 right: Volodymyr

Kyrylyuk/Shutterstock; p.17 Flip Schulke/CORBIS; p.18 Margaret Bourke-White/Getty Images;

p.19 Francis Miller/Getty Images; p.20 The Granger Collection, New York; p.21 Don Cravens/

Getty Images; p.22 LC-USZ62-126559; p.23 top: Francis Miller/Getty Images; p.23 bottom

left: Cico/Shutterstock; p.23 bottom right: Donald Uhrbrock/Getty Images; p.24 left: Francis

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Images; p.26 Corbis Bridge/Alamy; p.27 top to bottom: Flip Schulke/CORBIS; Don Cravens/

Getty Images; Francis Miller/Getty Images; LC-DIG-ppmsca-03196; back cover Zhukov Oleg/

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Based on writing from TIME For Kids.

TIME For Kids and the TIME For Kids logo are registered trademarks of TIME Inc.

Used under license.

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ISBN 978-1-4333-3641-6

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Consultant

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.

Kent State University

Publishing Credits

Dona Herweck Rice, Editor-in-Chief

Robin Erickson, Production Director

Lee Aucoin, Creative Director

Conni Medina, M.A.Ed., Editorial Director

Jamey Acosta, Editor

Stephanie Reid, Photo Editor

Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed., Publisher

Synched Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

PO Box 573

Prior Lake, MN 55372

ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-810-4 (e-book)

Table of Contents

Unfair! .........................................................

Where Love Was Central .........................

Growing Up ..............................................

Ministry ...................................................... 16

Civil Rights ................................................ 20

Martin Luther King Jr.

Time Line .............................................. 27

Glossary ..................................................... 28

Unfair!

Martin came home one day feeling

sad . His good friend would not play

with him . The boys father told him not

to play with Martin because Martin had

dark skin .

Martins parents hugged him . They

told him about unfair things that happened

to them , too , because of their skin color .

They said that sometimes fear and hatred

make people do terrible things .

drinking fountain for

African Americans

Martin knew these things were

wrong . He wanted to make things better .

He said , Im going to turn this world

upside down .

What Are Civil Rights?

Civil rights are freedoms given to all citizens , such as

freedom of speech , freedom to vote , and freedom

to assemble peacefully .

Martin grew up to be Dr. Martin

Luther King Jr. , the great civil rights

leader . And he did turn the world upside

down .

Martin Luther King Sr. ,

Martins father

Names

Martin was first named Michael ,

like his father . They both

changed their names to Martin ,

perhaps in honor of Martin

Luther , a religious leader from

long ago . But Martins family

did not call him Michael or

Martin . They called him M.L. ,

just like they called his brother

A.D. for Adam Daniel .

Where Love Was Central

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on

January , 1929 , in Atlanta , Georgia .

Martins home was happy . He and his

sister , Christine , and brother , A.D. , felt

love all around them . Martin wrote that his

home was a place where love was central .

Christine and Adam Daniel

( A.D. ), Martins siblings

birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.

But the world outside Martins home

was not always filled with love . African

Americans were not allowed the same

rights as other people . They suffered

because of other peoples hatred and fear .

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