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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Martin_Luther_King_JrMartin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

    Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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    Michael King, Jr. was born at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. Although the name "Michael" appeared on his birth certificate, his name was later changed to Martin Luther in honor of German reformer Martin Luther. As King was growing up, everything in Georgia was segregated, 70 years after the Confederacy was defeated and ...

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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    King first started his civil rights activism in 1955. At that time, he led a protest against the way black people were segregated on buses. They had to sit at the back of the bus, separate from white people.He told his supporters, and the people who were against equal rights, that people should only use peaceful ways to solve the problem. King was chosen as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which was created during the boycott. Rosa Parks later said: "Dr. King was cho...

    March on Washington

    In 1963, King helped plan the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This was the largest protest for human rights in United States history. On August 28, 1963, about 250,000 people marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Then they listened to civil rights leaders speak. King was the last speaker. His speech, called "I Have a Dream," became one of history's most famous civil rights speeches.King talked about his dream that one day, white and black people would be equa...

    Nobel Prize

    In 1964, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.When presenting him with the award, the Chairman of the Nobel Committee said:

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    King had made enemies by working for civil rights and becoming such a powerful leader. The Ku Klux Klan did what they could to hurt King's reputation, especially in the South. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) watched King closely. They wiretappedhis phones, his home, and the phones and homes of his friends. On April 4, 1968, King was in Me...

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    Just days after King's death, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Title VIII of the Act, usually called the Fair Housing Act, made it illegal to discriminate in housing because of a person's race, religion, or home country. (For example, this made it illegal for a realtorto refuse to let a black family buy a house in a white neighborhood....

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    Rosa Parkswith King during the bus boycott (1955)
    View of the protestors at the March on Washington (1963)
    Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedymeet with King & other civil rights leaders (1963)
    Police and protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge (1965)

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    Racial segregation
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    Mahatma Gandhi

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    Timeline of Dr. King's life Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine from BBC
    Martin Luther King at Find a Grave

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  5. kinginstitute.stanford.edu › introductionIntroduction | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...

    Introduction. Martin Luther King, Jr., made history, but he was also transformed by his deep family roots in the African-American Baptist church, his formative experiences in his hometown of Atlanta, his theological studies, his varied models of religious and political leadership, and his extensive network of contacts in the peace and social ...

  6. thekingcenter.org › about-tkc › martMartin Luther King, Jr. | About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Dr. King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history.

  7. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › peaceMartin Luther King Jr. – Facts - NobelPrize.org

    Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Martin Luther King Jr. The Nobel Peace Prize 1964. Born: 15 January 1929, Atlanta, GA, USA. Died: 4 April 1968, Memphis, TN, USA. Residence at the time of the award: USA. Role: Leader of Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

  8. www.britannica.com › summary › Martin-Luther-King-JrMartin Luther King, Jr. summary - Encyclopedia Britannica

    Martin Luther King, Jr., (born Jan. 15, 1929, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn.), U.S. civil rights leader. The son and grandson of Baptist preachers, King became an adherent of nonviolence while in college.

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