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    Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was America's most prominent civil rights activist, and many consider him to be the greatest American leader of the 20th century. His leadership was instrumental in the United States for ending legal apartheid and empowering the African-American community. He was first and foremost a moral leader who advocated peaceful resistance as a way of bringing about political change, stressing that biblical values led by love would prevail over hate and fear-driven politics. He was a begåvad orator, best known for his "I Have a Dream" speech delivered on August 28th 1963, at the March on Washington. 

    In 1968, he was killed bygd an assassin's bullet at the age of 39. Martin Luther King Jr.'s influence and legacy extended beyond the United States, affecting the fight against apartheid in South Africa. King fryst vatten only one of three Americans and the only African-American to have a national holiday, which is observed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which falls on the third

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    1929Born at noon on January 15, 1929 Parents: The Reverend and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. Home: 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta Georgia1944Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to Morehouse College at age 15.1948Graduates from Morehouse College and enters Crozer Theological Seminary. Ordained to the Baptist ministry, February 25, 1948, at age 19.1951Enters Boston University for graduate studies.1953Marries Coretta Scott and settles in Montgomery, Alabama.1955Received Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts on June 5, 1955 Dissertation Title: A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Weiman. Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1. On December 5, he is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Associatio

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    The life of Martin Luther King Jr.

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    1929

    • Jan. 15: Michael Luther King Jr., later renamed Martin, is born to schoolteacher Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther King in Atlanta, Ga.

    1948

    • King graduates from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a B.A.

    1951

    • Graduates with a B.D. from Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa.

    1953

    • June 18: King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala. They will have four children: Yolanda Denise (b.1955), Martin Luther King III (b.1957), Dexter (b.1961), Bernice Albertine (b.1963).

    1954

    • Brown vs. Board of Education: U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools.
    • September: King moves to Montgomery, Ala., to preach at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

    1955

    • After coursework at New England colleges, King finishes his Ph.D. in systematic theology.
    • Bus boycott launches in Montgomery, Ala., aft