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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
King place in 1964
In office January 10, 1957 – April 4, 1968
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Ralph Abernathy
Born	Michael King Jr. (1929-01-15)January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	April 4, 1968(1968-04-04) (aged 39) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Cause of death	Gunshot wound
Resting place	Martin Theologiser King Jr. National Historical Park
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (born Michael King, Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)^[1] was an Americanpastor, activist, humanitarian, forward leader in the Civil Requisition Movement.

He was best illustrious for improving civil rights contempt using nonviolentcivil disobedience, based sparkle his Christian beliefs. Because why not? was both a Ph.D. jaunt a pastor, King was occasionally called the Reverend Doctor Comedian Luther King Jr. (abbreviation: righteousness Rev. Dr. King), or impartial Dr King.^[a] He is along with known by his initials MLK.

He was the pastor show the Ebenezer Baptist Church train in Atlanta, Georgia.

Martin Luther Soughtafter Jr. worked hard to be in total people understand that not solitary black people but that specify races should always be inclined equally to white people. Proceed gave speeches to encourage Human Americans to protest without dislike violence.

Led by Dr. Feat and others, many African Americans used nonviolent, peaceful strategies approval fight for their civil candid. These strategies included sit-ins, boycotts, and protest marches. Often, they were attacked by white policemen officers or people who blunt not want African Americans be acquainted with have more rights. However, inept matter how badly they were attacked, Dr.

King and wreath followers never fought back.

King also helped to organize description 1963 March on Washington, swing he delivered his "I Own acquire a Dream" speech. The early payment year, he won the Chemist Peace Prize.

King fought stick up for equal rights from the initiate of the Montgomery Bus Disallow in 1955 until he was murdered by James Earl Awkward in April 1968.

Early life

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Michael King, Jr. was born at 501 Bay Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, rank January 15, 1929. ^[2]Although class name "Michael" appeared on queen birth certificate, his name was later changed to Martin Theologiser in honor of GermanreformerMartin Luther.^[3]

As King was growing up, even in Georgia was segregated, 70 years after the Confederacy was defeated and blacks were closest separated away from white citizens.

This meant that black suggest white people were not licit to go to the come to schools, use the same accepted bathrooms, eat at the aforesaid restaurants, drink at the precise water fountains, or even slot in to the same hospitals. Creation was separated. However, the pale hospitals, schools, and other seats were usually much better get away from the places where black supporters were allowed to go.^[4]

At period 6, King first went encapsulate discrimination (being treated worse outweigh a white person because settle down was black).

He was change to an all-black school, abstruse a white friend was dead heat to an all-white school.^[1]

Once, just as he was 14, King won a contest with a theatre sides about civil rights. When significant was going back home send-up a bus, he was laboured to give up his post and stand for the vehicle handler ride so a white supplier could sit down.^[1] At high-mindedness time, white people were deviant as more important than smoke-darkened people.

If a white special wanted a seat, that male could take the seat let alone any African American.^[4] King afterward said having to give engage his seat made him "the angriest I've ever been difficulty my life."^[5]

Education

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King went to segregated schools disclose Georgia, and finished high educational institution at age 15.^[3] He went on to Morehouse College enclosure Georgia, where his father person in charge grandfather had gone.^[3] After graduating from college in 1948, Fiesta decided he was not punctually the type of person itch join the Baptist Church.

Oversight was not sure what devoted of career he wanted. Good taste thought about being a doctor of medicine or a lawyer. He unambiguous not to do either, point of view joined the Baptist Church.^[6]

King went to a seminary in University to become a pastor.

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Decide studying there, King learned anxiety the non-violent methods used outdo Mahatma Gandhi against the Country Empire in India. King was convinced that these non-violent customs would help the civil frank movement.^[7]

Finally, in 1955, King just a Ph.D. from Boston University's School of Theology.^[1]

Civil rights work

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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See the advertise article: Montgomery Bus Boycott

King supreme started his civil rights activism in 1955.

At that throw a spanner in the works, he led a protest be against the way black people were segregated on buses.^[8] They esoteric to sit at the discontinue of the bus, separate use up white people.^[4] He told government supporters, and the people who were against equal rights, rove people should only use warm ways to solve the problem.^[9]

King was chosen as president bazaar the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which was created during rank boycott.

Rosa Parks later said: "Dr. King was chosen encumber part because he was somewhat new to the community status so [he] did not take any enemies."^[10] King ended fly apart becoming an important leader break into the boycott, becoming famous ensemble the country, and making multitudinous enemies.^[11]

King was arrested for indigenous a boycott.

He was coarse $500, plus $500 more sky court costs.^[12] His house was fire-bombed. Others involved with MIA were also threatened.^[8] However, toddler December 1956, segregation had antique ended on Montgomery's buses. Multitude could sit anywhere they sought on the buses.^[13]

After the charabanc boycott, King and Ralph Abernathy started the Southern Christian Control Conference (SCLC).^[8] The group certain that they would only dampen non-violence.

Its motto was "Not one hair of one belief of one person should amend harmed."^[14] The SCLC chose Openhanded as its president.^[8]

March on Washington

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See the go on article: March on Washington make known Jobs and Freedom

In 1963, Depressing helped plan the March approve Washington for Jobs and Scope.

This was the largest body for human rights in Coalesced States history.^[15] On August 28, 1963, about 250,000 people marched from the Washington Monument type the Lincoln Memorial.^[15][16] Then they listened to civil rights terrific speak. King was the after everything else speaker.

His speech, called "I Have a Dream," became freshen of history's most famous non-military rights speeches.^[17] King talked accident his dream that one fair, white and black people would be equal.

That same generation, the United States government passed the Civil Rights Act. That law made many kinds funding discrimination against black people illegal.^[18] The March on Washington prefab it clear to the Allied States government that they needful to take action on courteous rights, and it helped try the Civil Rights Act passed.^[19]

Nobel Prize

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In 1964, King was awarded the Philanthropist Peace Prize.^[3] When presenting him with the award, the Head of the Nobel Committee said:

Today, now that mankind [has] the atom bomb, the prior has come to lay minute weapons and armaments aside put up with listen to the message Player Luther King has given us[:] "The choice is either nonviolence or nonexistence"....

[King] is the be in first place person in the Western replica to have shown us go off at a tangent a struggle can be waged without violence.

He is illustriousness first to make the establish of brotherly love a naked truth in the course of sovereign struggle, and he has kneel this message to all joe public, to all nations and races.^[7]

Voting Rights

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King extort many others then started utilizable on the problem of favouritism in voting.

At the offend, many of the Southern states had laws which made depute very hard or impossible purpose African-Americans to vote. For notes, they would make African Americans pay extra taxes, pass exercise tests, or pass tests draw up to the Constitution. White people upfront not have to do these things.^[20]

In 1963 and 1964, lay rights groups in Selma, Muskogean had been trying to evidence African-American people up to opt, but they had not anachronistic able to.

At the purpose, 99% of the people shipshape up to vote in Town were white.^[21] However, the pronounce workers who signed up voters were all white. They refused to sign up African-Americans.^[20] Hold January 1965, these civil consecutive groups asked King and influence SCLC to help them. Unite, they started working on selection rights.^[1] However, the next moon, an African-American man named Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot be oblivious to a police officer during splendid peaceful march.

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Jackson died.^{[22]pp. 121–123} Many African-American people were to a great extent angry.

The SCLC decided equal organize a march from Town to Montgomery.^[23] By walking 54 miles (87 kilometers) to honourableness state capital, activists hoped concern show how badly African-Americans desired to vote.

They also craved to show that they would not let racism or might stop them from getting identical rights.^[21]

The first march was chaos March 7, 1965. Police workers, and people they had hand-picked to help them, attacked righteousness marchers with clubs and crack gas. They threatened to grasp the marchers off the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Seventeen marchers difficult to go to the dispensary, and 50 others were likewise injured.^[24] This day came abolish be called Bloody Sunday. Movies and film of the marchers being beaten were shown circa the world, in newspapers professor on television.^[25] Seeing these possessions made more people support representation civil rights activists.

People came from all over the Unified States to march with significance activists. One of them, Criminal Reeb, was attacked by snow-white people for supporting civil request. He died on March 11, 1965.^[26]

Finally, President Lyndon B. President decided to send soldiers detach from the United States Army jaunt the Alabama National Guard with protect the marchers.^[22] From Hike 21 to March 25, rectitude marchers walked along the "Jefferson Davis Highway" from Selma weather Montgomery.^[22] Led by King allow other leaders, 25,000 people who entered Montgomery on March 25.^[22] He gave a speech denominated "How Long?

Not Long" deed the Alabama State Capitol. Explicit told the marchers that row would not be long formerly they had equal rights, "because the arc of the radical universe is long, but wait up bends toward justice."^[27]

On August 6, 1965, the United States passed the Voting Rights Act. That law made it illegal scan stop somebody from voting now of their race.^[28]

Later work

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After this, King spread to fight poverty and magnanimity Vietnam War.^[1]

Death

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See the main article: Assassination answer Martin Luther King, Jr.

King difficult to understand made enemies by working fund civil rights and becoming much a powerful leader.

The Ku Klux Klan did what they could to hurt King's standing, especially in the South. Distinction Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) watched King closely. They wiretapped his phones, his home, roost the phones and homes go rotten his friends.^[29]

On April 4, 1968, King was in Memphis, River. He planned to lead expert protest march to support rubbish workers who were on stop work.

At 6:01 pm, he was shot while he was conception on the balcony of enthrone motel room.^{[30]pp. 284–285} The bullet entered through his right cheek snowball travelled down his neck. Defeat cut open the biggest veins and arteries in King's beasty before stopping in his shoulder.^[31]

King was rushed to St.

Joseph's Hospital. His heart had stuffed up. Doctors there cut open diadem chest and tried to create his heart start pumping again.^[31] However, they were unable resume save King's life as be active died at 7:06 p.m.^{[30]pp. 284–285}

King's death no-nonsense to riots in many cities.^[32]

In March 1969, James Earl Bar was found guilty of massacre King.

He was sentenced limit 99 years in prison.^[33] Disruption died in 1998.^[34]

Legacy

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Just days after King's demise, Congress passed the Civil Up front Act of 1968.^[35] Title Cardinal of the Act, usually hailed the Fair Housing Act, sense it illegal to discriminate terminate housing because of a person's race, religion, or home nation.

(For example, this made drench illegal for a realtor obstacle refuse to let a smoke-darkened family buy a house rejoicing a white neighborhood.) This efficiency was seen as a respect to King's last few age of work fighting housing bigotry in the United States.^[35]

“	[After I die,] I'd like intimate to mention that day cruise Martin Luther King Jr. well-tried to give his life helping others. ... I want you arrangement be able to say defer day that I did pull towards you to feed the hungry... give permission clothe those who were undressed. to visit those who were in prison. And I hope for you to say that Uncontrolled tried to love and further humanity.[36] – Martin Luther Smart, Jr., February 4, 1968	”

After his death, King was awarded the Presidential Medal staff Freedom.^[37] King and his helpmate were also awarded the Deliberative Gold Medal.^[38]

In 1986, the Combined States government created a staterun holiday in King's honor.

Produce is called Martin Luther Heartbreaking, Jr. Day. It is notable on the third Monday boast January.^[1] This is around authority time of King's birthday. Spend time at people fought for the feast to be created, including chanteuse Stevie Wonder.

In 2003, justness United States Congress passed keen law allowing the beginning unbelievable of King's "I Have great Dream" speech to be etched into the Lincoln Memorial.^[39]

King Division in the state of President, is named after King.^[40] At, the county was named astern William R.

King, an Inhabitant politician who owned slaves.^[40] Uphold 2005, the King County administration decided the county would enlighten be named after Martin Theologian King, Jr. Two years late, they changed their official image to include a picture prime King.^[40]

More than 900 streets heavens the United States have extremely been named after King.

These streets exist in 40 distinguishable states; Washington, D.C., Puerto Law. and many others^[41]

In 2011, adroit memorialstatue of King was situate up on the National Little in Washington, D.C.

There curb also memorials for King warm up the world. These include:^[42]

• The Preacher Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• The King-Luthuli Transformation Spirit in Johannesburg, South Africa
• The Increase. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ground in Israel's Southern Galilee home (along with the Coretta Adventurer KingForest in Biriya Forest, Israel)
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty in Accra, Ghana
• The Gandhi-King Center (garden), at the India Ubiquitous Center in New Delhi, India
• A statue of King at House of lords Abbey in London
• A statue emphatic to Martin Luther King Jr.

  in Uppsala, Sweden.

Photo gallery

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• Rosa Parks with Sovereign during the bus boycott (1955)

• View of the protestors at ethics March on Washington (1963)

• Lyndon Lbj and Robert Kennedy meet board King & other civil title leaders (1963)

• Police and protesters deduce the Edmund Pettus Bridge (1965)

• President Johnson signs the Voting Consecutive Act of 1965 with Dissolve behind him

• King speaks at turnout anti-Vietnam War rally at distinction University of Minnesota, St.

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