Unit FifteenI Have a Dream.docVIP

Unit Fifteen I Have a Dream About the author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929~1968) — Afro-American clergyman, founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a leader of the nonviolent movement for racial equality in the U.S.A. his nation-wide campaign, including civil rights marches and boycotts, spurred a Supreme Court ruling (1957) that racial segregation in public transportation was unlawful, the Civil Rights Act (1964), and the Voting Rights Act (1965). He was assassinated (1968) by James Earl Ray while preparing to lead a march by striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn