Who is 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.

• Works by or about Martin Luther King, Jr. in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Works by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Project Gutenberg
• The King Center
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Biography of King and links to other articles
• Photo Essay: The Last Days of Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
• MLK online
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s "A New Sense of Direction (1968)" article
• King in New York
• Permanent section of Atlanta Journal-Constitution on King's life
• The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr.
• Lesser Known Wise and Prophetic Words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Speeches of Martin Luther King
• "The MLK you don't see on TV"
• 1956 Comic Book: Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
• New Georgia Encyclopedia Short Biography by Kirk, John A.
• Misreading the Dream: The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr. and Affirmative Action
• No Small Dreams: The Radical Evolution of MLK's Last Years
• Transcript of interview with Dr. Kenneth Clark
• The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Conscience of the Nation
• Martin Luther King Jr. article, Encyclopedia of Alabama

Video and Audio Material

• Audio from April 1961 King, "The Church on the Frontier of Racial Tensions" - speech at Southern Seminary
• Audio recordings of King speeches including "I Have a Dream"
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Speeches and Interviews
• Video of speeches - "I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the mountaintop"
• "I Have a Dream" Hiphop song sampling
• The New Negro, King interviewed by J. Waites Waring
• "I Have a Dream" speech video
• "Beyond Vietnam" speech text and audio
• YouTube clip of "How Long? Not Long!" speech
• YouTube clip of "Mountaintop" speech

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