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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. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister ...
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- Birth and Family
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Creation of SCLC
- The Albany Movement: 1961–1962
- The Birmingham Protest: 1963
- The March on Washington: 1963
- The Selma-to-Montgomery March
- The Chicago Movement: 1965–1966
- The Poor People’s Campaign: 1968
- National Holiday: 1983
Martin Luther King Jr.’s parents, Michael King and Alberta Williams, were married on Thanksgiving Day 1926 in Atlanta, Georgia, at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his wife’s father, the Reverend A. D. Williams, was the pastor. The newly married couple moved in with the wife’s parents. It was in this household that Michael Luther King Jr. was born on...
After Parks was arrested, three major overlapping organizations, the NAACP, the Women’s Political Council, and the Montgomery Improvement Association, mobilized to launch a bus boycott to protest the blatant racism and segregation inflicted upon black passengers. For several years the NAACP had been looking for an appropriate case arising from an a...
Out of the Montgomery protest came not only the ascendancy of King but also the creation of a new civil rights organization for African Americans in the South. During the wait for the final court order to the city, the MIA hosted a weeklong conference called Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change. A few notable outsiders and several ministers a...
The successful Montgomery bus boycott created its own dynamism both inside the African American community and in white communities across the South. The civil rights gains in the black community of Montgomery, Alabama, were perceived by some in the white community as a loss. Nevertheless, there had been success in only one southern city, and numero...
The Birmingham protest began on April 3, 1963, just before the Easter shopping season. There, as elsewhere, marches and demonstrations led to the jailing of King, and from his cell he wrote the now famous “Letter from the Birmingham Jail.” This letter garnered much national publicity for his efforts and attracted significant support from white chur...
Eventually, Randolph persuaded all the major civil rights leaders to back the march on Washington plan, and on July 17, 1963, President Kennedy endorsed the march during a press conference. On August 28, 1963, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech and after the festivities were over, all the major leaders went...
In the aftermath of Johnson’s ascendancy to the presidency and his subsequent speech to support Kennedy’s civil rights bill, King and the SCLC selected St. Augustine, Florida, as a new site to attack segregation. On May 18, 1964, King made his first visit and prepared to lead demonstrations and marches against the city, which had decided to hold ou...
On June 28, 1965, when local protests in Chicago over the school system and its insensitive superintendent Benjamin Willis failed to budge Mayor Richard Daley, local leader Al Raby asked King to come to the city and assist with marches and demonstrations to deal with the city’s nonresponsive mayor. King agreed and arrived first on July 6, then came...
After the withdrawal from Chicago in the fall of 1966, King in January and February 1967 wrote his fourth book, Where Do We Go from Here? and on February 25 delivered his first speech attacking U.S. policy in Vietnam. In July, President Johnson increased the number of troops in Vietnam, while the ghettoes in Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit, Michiga...
King’s leadership, along with that of other civil rights groups and activists, led to the passage of three major civil rights bills and the evolution of African Americans to full citizenship. Not only was this unprecedented, but it restored America’s democracy to a new level in world affairs. Thus, Conyers’s efforts to honor this distinguished citi...
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Apr 3, 2014 · This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on January 15, coincides with the late civil rights leader ’s birthday. Had he lived, King would be turning 95 years old. Days after his 1968 ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (born Michael King, Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) [2] was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was best known for improving civil rights by using nonviolent civil disobedience, based on his Christian beliefs.
