Transcript Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation
Made by History 1 Classes
•Ancient Greece and Rome
•Civil Rights Across Time
•Connections to MLK
•Importance for Today
Martin Luther King Jr.
-Assassinated
April 4, 1968
-Nobel Peace Prize Winner
-‘I Have A Dream’ Speech
- Leader Of The Civil Rights
Movement
Solon
638 BCE to 558 BCE
-Solon was an aristocrat.
-He got rid of slavery debt.
-He was forced to die because of his
efforts to lessen the gap between upper
and lower class.
-He was a poet and a law maker.
Clisthenes
-He wanted to change the government and allow the
Athenians to govern themselves rather than have the
aristocrats and the wealthy be in charge of everybody
else
-Created a new system that increased devotion to the
polis, rather than just the individual
-Made an assembly of 500 citizens, it was open and any
Athenian (male) could submit legislation or offer
suggestions to change the way Athens was run
-Father of Athenian democracy along with Solon and
Pisistratus
Tiberius Gracchus
The Gracchi Brothers
The Gracchi fought for the oppressed
majority.
The Gracchi were killed for their attempts.
Gaius Gracchus
The Patricians got rid of the reforms after
murdering the Gracchi.
The Gracchi are sometimes seen as one of
the major causes of the downfall of the
Roman empire.
The Gracchi are related to MLK Jr. in that
they were killed for their beliefs, they fought
for the oppressed, and that they were
eloquent public speakers.