Martin Luther King Jr. Wikipedia. Martin Luther King Jr. King in 1. 96. 41st President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In office. 19. 57–1. Preceded by. Inaugural holder. Succeeded by. Ralph Abernathy. Personal details.

Born. Michael King Jr.(1. January 1. 5, 1. 92. Atlanta, Georgia, U. S. Died. April 4, 1.

Memphis, Tennessee, U. S. Cause of death. Assassination. Spouse(s)Coretta Scott (m. 1. Children. Parents.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Michael King Jr., January 1. April 4, 1. 96. 8) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. King became a civil rights activist early in his career.

He led the 1. 95. Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1. Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the 1.

Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1. March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. On October 1. 4, 1. King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1. 96. 5, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing.

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In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1. Beyond Vietnam". In 1. King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D. C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. King's death was followed by riots in many U. S. cities. Ray, who fled the country, was arrested two months later at London Heathrow Airport. Ray was sentenced to 9.

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King's murder, and died in 1. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr.

Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1. U. S. federal holiday in 1. Hundreds of streets in the U. S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also renamed for him. The Martin Luther King Jr.

Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., was dedicated in 2. Early life and education. King was born on January 1. Atlanta, Georgia, to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta Williams King (1.

King's legal name at birth was Michael King,[2] and his father was also born Michael King, but the elder King changed his and his son's names following a 1. Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin.

It was during this time he chose to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther.[3][unreliable source?][4] King's parents were both African- American, and he also had Irish ancestry through his paternal great- grandfather.[5][6][7]King was a middle child, between an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. King sang with his church choir at the 1. Atlanta premiere of the movie Gone with the Wind.[9] King liked singing and music. His mother was an accomplished organist and choir leader, and she took him to various churches to sing. He received attention for singing "I Want to Be More and More Like Jesus." King later became a member of the junior choir in his church.[1.

King said that his father regularly whipped him until he was fifteen; a neighbor reported hearing the elder King telling his son "he would make something of him even if he had to beat him to death." King saw his father's proud and fearless protests against segregation, such as King Sr. When King was a child, he befriended a white boy whose father owned a business near his family's home.

When the boys were six, they started school: King had to attend a school for African Americans and the other boy went to one for whites (public schools were among the facilities segregated by state law). King lost his friend because the child's father no longer wanted the boys to play together.[1. King suffered from depression throughout much of his life. In his adolescent years, he initially felt resentment against whites due to the "racial humiliation" that he, his family, and his neighbors often had to endure in the segregated South.[1. At the age of 1. 2, shortly after his maternal grandmother died, King blamed himself and jumped out of a second- story window, but survived.[1.

King was skeptical of many of Christianity's claims. At the age of 1. 3, he denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus during Sunday school.[1. Watch A Christmas Too Many Online. From this point, he stated, "doubts began to spring forth unrelentingly."[1. However, he later concluded that the Bible has "many profound truths which one cannot escape" and decided to enter the seminary.[1. Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School.

He became known for his public speaking ability and was part of the school's debate team.[1. King became the youngest assistant manager of a newspaper delivery station for the Atlanta Journal in 1. During his junior year, he won first prize in an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro Elks Club in Dublin, Georgia. Returning home to Atlanta by bus, he and his teacher were ordered by the driver to stand so that white passengers could sit down. King initially refused, but complied after his teacher told him that he would be breaking the law if he did not submit. King said that during this incident, he was "the angriest I have ever been in my life."[1.

A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grades of high school.[1. During King's junior year in high school, Morehouse College, a respected historically black college, announced that it would accept any high school juniors who could pass its entrance exam. At that time, many students had abandoned further studies to enlist in World War II.

Due to this, Morehouse was eager to fill its classrooms. At the age of 1. 5, King passed the exam and entered Morehouse.[1. The summer before his last year at Morehouse, in 1.

King chose to enter the ministry. He had concluded that the church offered the most assuring way to answer "an inner urge to serve humanity." King's "inner urge" had begun developing, and he made peace with the Baptist Church, as he believed he would be a "rational" minister with sermons that were "a respectful force for ideas, even social protest."[2. In 1. 94. 8, he graduated from Morehouse with a B.

A. in sociology and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a B. Div. degree in 1. King's father fully supported his decision to continue his education. While attending Crozer, King was joined by Walter Mc. Call, a former classmate at Morehouse.[2.

At Crozer, King was elected president of the student body.[2. The African- American students of Crozer for the most part conducted their social activity on Edwards Street. King became fond of the street because a classmate had an aunt who prepared collard greens for them, which they both relished.[2. King once reproved another student for keeping beer in his room, saying they had shared responsibility as African Americans to bear "the burdens of the Negro race." For a time, he was interested in Walter Rauschenbusch's "social gospel."[2. In his third year at Morehouse, King became romantically involved with the white daughter of an immigrant German woman who worked as a cook in the cafeteria. The daughter had been involved with a professor prior to her relationship with King.

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