Write your article. What is your headline? What are the main comments that you want to make? Try to cover the following points:

• Give King’s full name and date and place of death.
• Give some background on King (his education, job, family).
• How was he killed, who did it, and was the killer caught?
• Recount some of the main events and things King did in his life.
• What did he achieve? (Think about campaigns he led, speeches he made, awards he received, and so on.)
• What impact did he have on people? (Think about politicians, civil rights campaigners, Southerners against civil rights, and ordinary people.)
• What was the contribution of Martin Luther King to the civil rights movement?
• Why is King still remembered?
• What made his life so special?
• Would things have been different had he never lived?