Who is DrMartin Luther King?

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968), was one of the main leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement. A Baptist minister by training, King became a civil rights activist early in his career, leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, raising public consciousness of the civil rights movement and establishing King as one of the greatest orators in American history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.

He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was an African American A Baptist minister and civil rights ativist. His activtys led to important improvement in civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.Read more about him on the ebsite belowhe was a very respectful man

Answer 2

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was an African-American minister, speaker, and civil rights leader, who helped to end legal segregation in the US during the early 1960s.

He was born Michael King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia and received a BA degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania (where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class) he was awarded his BD in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston, he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, and was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was ready early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States - the bus boycott, which lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed for the civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream".

He conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested more than twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money to the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was shot and killed. His boyhood home in Atlanta is now a US National Historic Site. In honor of his contribution to the country, his birth is commemorated on the third Monday in January as a National Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
martin was a man who fough fo eual rights he was a good man and gandhi im pround of them

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Martin Luther King isn't very well known, unlike his son, Martin Luther King Jr., who was a civil rights leader.

Martin Luther King (Sr.) was a Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia for four decades.

Martin Luther King's legal name was Michael King. He changed his name after a trip to Germany, but never had it legally changed.

Martin Luther King was the head of the NAACP in Atlanta and the Civic and Political League. He fought for equal teacher's salaries in Atlanta and was instrumental in ending the Jim Crow laws in Georgia.
Martin Luther King a brave man.

He had a speech called "I have a dream."

His speech was the strongest speech ever written in my opinion.

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He was a man who had dreams (aspirations) and followed them . Not a dream as we would have when asleep, but he meant that he hoped for certain things to happen.

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a man who was famous for giving a speech starting with i have a dream and he goes on about wanting a non- racist world but was killed later on

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martin luther king

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civil rights leader

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somebody who sort of changed the world