Important events in their lives

MARTIN LUTHER KING

• Unfair laws for black people

• Meets Rosa Parks

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Ku Klux Khan terrorises black people

• Gives famous speech in Washington D.C. in 1963

• Wins Nobel Peace Prize

• He is murdered in 1968

EMMELINE PANKHURST

• Unfair laws for women

• Foundation of WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union)

• The Cause becomes violent

• Suffragettes are imprisoned

• Hunger strike

• 1918: women over 30 are allowed to vote

• 1928: women get same voting rights as men