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Complete the text on pp. 97-98 with the missing sentences. There is one extra sentence which you do not need MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - A MAN WITH A DREAM January is not only the month in which Americans inaugurate their new president. (1-C) It is also the month to celebrate one of the greatest figures in modern American history. A man who had a dream and who fought for it day and night. A man who struggled for equality for all Americans, whether black, white, red or yellow. A man whose fight for a better America was cut short by a sniper's bullet in a Tennessee hotel: Martin Luther King Jr. In order to understand just what Martin Luther King Jr. was up against, one must travel back to the 1950s in the United States. (2-D) America needed a hero. Blacks had different laws than whites: they were required to sit at the backs of buses, they were unable to attend some schools and they even had separate drinking fountains from which to drink; many shops displayed "No blacks" signs. The Ku Klux Klan terrorised a huge part of the United States. (3-C) It is also the month to celebrate one of the greatest figures in modern American history. It got one. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. Atlanta was the former capital of the Confederate States of America and segregation was an everyday thing. Young Martin excelled in school and went on to study at Morehouse College where he was awarded a bachelor's degree. (4-I) It was during this time that he felt a calling to work for God. It was so strong that he decided to enrol in Crozer Theological College in Pennsylvania. In 1954, after his marriage to Coretta Scott, he moved to Alabama where he took over the ministry at a small Baptist church. The local whites did not take his arrival kindly to. (5-E) Subsequently, they bombed his house. Luckily, he escaped unharmed. 1962 marked the turning point in Martin Luther King's career. (6-H) It was in that year that he was able to meet the President of the United States. John T. Kennedy assured Martin that his struggle for equality was in the best interest of both whites and blacks. King returned to Alabama with a new mission: to eliminate inequality and racism in America. The next few years were tumultuous for King. (7-A) He not only led marches, but he was also physically assaulted, thrown in jail and publicly humiliated. All in all, Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist pastor, turned activist, stood for what was right and through peaceful means, fought against what was one of the society's greatest ills: racism. In 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, King was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel by James Earl Ray. Some say it's ironic that a man who preached peaceful civil disobedience met such a violent death. (8-F) January 20 is Martin Luther King Day in the United States. It is a day to remember how things were and how things might have turned out today if a man with a dream for equality had not been born. Martin Luther King Day is not just an occasion to celebrate the Civil Rights Activist, but a chance for all Americans to unite as one and celebrate their unity.