A man who changed the country with a dream
of all men and women being treated as equals.
Stay tuned for more with our Top 5 facts about
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr for kids.
Starting out with fact #1, Dr. King was a
smart young man.
He was so smart that he skipped two grades
in high school, 9th and 11th, and entered
Morehouse College at the age of 15 in 1944.
With Fact #2, Dr. King was not born with the
name Martin.
The civil rights leader was born Michael King
Jr. on January 15, 1929.
His name was changed after his father traveled
to Germany and became inspired by the Protestant
Reformation leader Martin Luther.
Later, King Sr. changed his own name as well
as his son’s name too.
Another Interesting fact with Fact #3 is about
Dr. King and the Grammy Awards.
Now the average person that thinks about the
Grammy Awards as music, but Dr. King actually
won a Grammy Award.
That is right in 1970, Dr. King won the Best
Spoken Word Recording Grammy for his speech,
“Why I oppose the War in Vietnam.”
Coming to you with Fact #4, Dr. King was assassinated
on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, TN, but this
was not the 1st attempt to kill him.
On September 20, 1958, King was in Harlem
signing copies of his new book when a woman
tried to kill him by stabbing him with a seven-inch
letter opener in the chest.
King would survive after having emergency
surgery
With our final fact, Dr. King worried a lot.
Because of his fight for equal rights, he
had a lot of stress and after his death even
though he was only 39 years old, one of the
doctors noted that his heart was like the
heart of a 60-year-old man at his death.
And that is all with our Top 5 facts about
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for kids.
We hope you enjoyed this educational video
for students sharing cool facts from his biography,
and if you have some fun facts you would like
to share about Dr. King, please share them
in the comments and we can’t wait to read
them.
