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Background/Education: Martin Luther King Jr. was born as Michael Luther King Jr. on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia but he had changed his name later on in life. He attended the Atlanta public schools. At the age of 15 he was sent to the Morehouse College! In 1948 He graduated from Morehouse and entered Crozer Theological Seminary as he ordained the previous year into the ministry of the National Baptist Church. He graduated from Crozer in 1951 and in 1955 he received his doctorate in theology from Boston University. King met Coretta Scott in Boston whom he married on June 18, 1953. They had four children. He was a pastor, an activist and ** a leader in the African-American civil rights **

Actions/Goals: Martin Luther was part of a bus boycott when Rosa Parks, a black woman who had refused to give up her seat for a white man. Many people were outraged by this despicable act and supported King. The boycott lasted over a year and finally the bus company gave in and segregated seating was stopped. Several black people were employed as bus drivers.  In January 1957 approximately 60 black ministers assembled in Atlanta to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to continue the civil rights fight. Martin Luther King Jr. was elected the president. King supported many students who protested against segregated seating in the lunch counters in city stores. They used economic boycotts to receive fair employment and other benefits for African-Americans. He had a dream to end racism.  <span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;">Accomplishments: <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;">King had won numerous awards for his nonviolent strategies for civil rights, for example, in 1964 King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He had leaded an act which caused a revolution (changed the racist laws which were against coloured people). In 1954 he became the minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He also became active among the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) and the Alabama council of Human relations. <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;"> <span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;">Inspiration/Followers: <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;">King was inspired by Mohandas Ghandi and followed his techniques. Ghandi was the root from whom King received numerous strategies. Obviously many black people were his followers but among all of them even the white people were with him as they admired his techniques and shared their goals. King had no enemies but was against the laws which separated blacks and whites.

<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;">Death: <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;">Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He was shot by James Earl Ray while he was standing on a balcony in a motel on the second floor in Memphis, Tennessee. The bullet was fired on his face. He was immediately taken to the hospital but King died at the age of 39.

Bibliography **Book:** Fandel, Jennifer. //Martin Luther King Jr. Great Civil Rights Leader (Graphic Biographies)//. New York: Graphic Library, 2006.

**Websites:** “King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929-1968).” //Encyclopedia of World Biography.// Gale, January 1, 1998. <find.galegroup.com/srcx/publicationSearch.do?queryType=PH&inPS=true&type=getIssues&prodId=DC&currentPosition=0&userGroupName=ko_k12hs_d63&searchTerm=Encyclopedia+of+World+Biography&index=JX&tabID= T001&contentSet=GBRC>.

"Martin Luther King’s Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC (1963)." January 1, 2009. Gale. January 12, 2010. <find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale %2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C26%2529%2522King%252C%2BMartin%2BLuther%252C%2BJr.%2522%

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