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__** Birth: January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia
 * __Martin Luther King Jr.

Death: April 4th, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee

Friends: Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Elijah Muhammad, Member of both the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Enemies: Caucasians fearing integration

Martin Luther King Jr. is known as one of the most famous civil rights activists in history. Born Michael Luther King Jr., in segregated Atlanta, Georgia you could guess his future because both his father and grandfather were involved in the civil rights movement. However Martin sent out and graduated from several universities, where he was able to find and marry his wife Coretta Scott, before realizing his involvement in the civil rights movement. Employed as a co-pastor under his father Martin was very religious. He had been a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and participated in several civil rights demonstrations like the bus boycott. During this time these demonstrations took place Martin was arrested, had his house bombed, and suffered from personal abuse, but it did not scare him away from accomplishing his goals for the nation. When he was elected as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he developed non-violent tactics which helped push the civil rights movements forward. He traveled across the country giving tons of speeches, his most memorable being “I Have a Dream”. In this speech Martin explains his hopes that in the near future white boys and white girls will be able to get along peacefully with black boys and black girls as brothers and sisters. Martin had received the Noble Peace Prize at the age of thirty-five, the youngest man to ever be awarded the Peace Prize. He donated the $54,123 of prize money to help further the civil rights movement.

Sadly, Martin Luther King Jr’s life story comes to a sad end when he was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his motel in Memphis Tennessee on April 4th, 1968. He was on his way to lead a protest march for the striking garbage workers for the city.

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