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,Memphis,1968,For this activity aimed at ending US segregation and racial discrimination through nonviolent means, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.Among his most remembered actions are the bus boycott in Montgomery in 1955; Your support for the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,he was an American pastor of the Baptist Church and an activist who developed crucial work in the United States at the forefront of the civil rights movement for African Americans and who also participated as an activist in numerous protests against the Vietnam War and poverty in general.,Martin Luther King,Atlanta,1929,,receiving the Nobel peace prize,men right fighter,Bus boycott in Montgomery,,Martin Luther King,,,,+info,Lorem ipsum dolor sit,amet, consectetuer
Human Right defenders
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr.,
but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as
pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has
served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-
pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high
school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a
distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had
graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in
Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was
awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at
Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the
degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon
intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.