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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist 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.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was a Baptist minister, activist, and the most well-known leader and spokesperson of the Civil Rights Movement. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and he posthumously was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in ...
March on Washington August 28, 1963 – Civil Rights Movement Archive; March on Washington, WDAS History; The 1963 March on Washington – slideshow by Life magazine; Original Program for the March on Washington Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine; Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the March Archived 2017-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
The Three Mothers, by Anna Malaika Tubbs It is no accident that Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin all took on such influential roles within the civil rights movement. In this ...
In honor of MLK Day, read the most famous Martin Luther King Jr. quotes. With his words, he inspires us all to pursue justice, love, freedom and equality.
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Martin Luther King and other leaders, therefore, agreed to keep their speeches calm, also, to avoid provoking the civil disobedience which had become the hallmark of the Civil Rights Movement. King originally designed his speech as a homage to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, timed to correspond with the centennial of the Emancipation ...
King reportedly donated the prize money, amounting to $53,123, to support the civil rights movement. He was named after Protestant reformer Martin Luther. King was born Michael King Jr. on Jan. 15 ...