Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr. is an African-American Baptist minister , he born in Atlanta (Georgia) on January 15, 1929 and assassinated April 4, 1968 in Memphis (Tennessee).He was a nonviolent activist for civil rights of Black in the U.S. He was for peace and against poverty.

Here are the views of racial segregation and the spiral of inequality and hatred it causes by MLK: "Men often hate each other because they fear each other, because they are afraid that 'they do not know, they do not know because they can not communicate, they can not communicate because they are separated. "

He grew up in segregated America. His first experience of racial segregation date of his six years when two white playmates told him they are no longer allowed to play with him. Her mother explained that it is because they are now white in segregated schools, but he insist it is as good as anyone.

In 1955 he organized the bus boycott in Montgomery to support Rosa Parks and to defend equality between blacks and whites.

The home of Martin Luther King is attacked by incendiary bombs following the bus boycott on the morning of January 30, 1956.

On August 28, 1963 he delivered one of his most famous speeches: "I Have a Dream" delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters.The U.S. president, John F. Kennedy supported him in his struggle against racial segregation in U.S. MLK gets the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964 for his nonviolent struggle against racial segregation.

He was assassinated by a white segregationist on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee when he went to support black sanitation workers who are local on strike since March 12 in order to obtain better pay and better treatment. African Americans were paid $ 1.70 an hour and were not paid when they could not work due to climate, unlike white workers.

He married, June 18, 1953 with Coretta Scott, who takes his name to Coretta Scott King. They have four children: Yolanda, born in 1955, Martin Luther King III, born in 1957, Dexter Scott, born 1961, and Bernice, born in 1963.

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