Who is Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination in 1968, King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice. See Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Brief History of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Links, Resources, and Websites
Martin Luther King Jr on Flickr

Dr Martin Luther King Jr, I Have A Dream Speech
First Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Brief History of 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. He was a political activist and Baptist minister and is regarded as one of America's greatest orators. King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a peacemaker, promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races. On April 4, 1968, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday. In 2004, King was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. He had an older sister, Willie Christine and a younger brother, Albert Daniel. King sang with his church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie Gone with the Wind. He entered Morehouse College at age fifteen, skipping his ninth and twelfth high school grades without formally graduating. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951. In September 1951, King began doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University and received his Doctor of Philosophy on June 5, 1955.

In 1953, at age 24, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to comply with the Jim Crow laws that required her to give up her seat to a white man. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by E. D. Nixon (head of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) and led by King, soon followed. In March 1953, a 15 year old school girl, Claudette Colvin, suffered the same fate, but King refused to become involved, instead preferring to focus on leading his church. The boycott lasted for 382 days... For more, see Wikipedia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Links, Resources, and Websites

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Martin Luther King Jr on Flickr

Martin Luther King Jr. By Alexander Austin by yngrich

the dream IS still alive... by D.James | Darren J. Ryan

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His DREAM is still Upon Us All by Kris Kros

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God by ☞Uh … Bob☜

King Looks to 16th St Baptist Church by lalunablanca

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Dr Martin Luther King Jr, I Have A Dream Speech

Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

The full version of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech. Comments disabled since many of them were hateful and racist. You can discuss the video here: http://www.mychurch.org/blog/121537/17-Minutes-with-Martin-Luther-King

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First Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

first interview with Martin Luther King from 1957 part 1

the first extensive TV Interview with Martin Luther King on The Open Mind - The New Negro (the 1957 term)

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