My Brother Martin

• Brother Martin and Christine were born in the same room
• They lived in a house that belonged to their grandparents, the reverend (priest) and Mrs. A.D. Williams
• They lived there with them and Aunt Ida
• Grandmother always took care of the children
• She would read to them about many places around the world
• Christine and her brothers likes to play and play pranks on people
• M.L liked music and sometimes traveled with mother to play music
• They lived in Sweet Auburn, Atlanta Georgia
• There were unfair laws that kept black people from doing certain things
• The kids all played together, white and black
• One day, ML and AD go to play with their friends, but their friends say that they can't play anymore because they can't play with negroes (black people)
• Segregation was a mean rule that kept black people away from white people, it also gave black people less rights than white people.
• Daddy was a minister at a Baptist church, and he did not like segregation
• One day a shoe salesman would only serve the black people hidden away from white people, so Daddy took them somewhere else to buy shoes
• ML grows up to be Martin Luther King, a famous African American speaker. He fought for equal rights of black people and white people.