“I have a dream that one day in Alabama little black boys and black girls will join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”

After ten years of protests, the lawmakers in Washington voted to end segregation. The WHITE ONLY signs in the South came down.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., cared about all Americans. He cared about people all over the world. And people all over the world admired him.

In 1964, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He won it because he taught others to fight with words, not fists.

Martin went wherever people needed help. In April 1968 he went to Memphis, Tennessee. He went to help garbage collectors who were on strike. He walked with them and talked with them and sang with them and prayed with them.

On his second day there, he was shot.

He died.

His big words are alive for us today.