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Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
King in 1964
In office January 10, 1957 – April 4, 1968
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Ralph Abernathy
Born	Michael King Jr. (1929-01-15)January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	April 4, 1968(1968-04-04) (aged 39) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Cause of death	Gunshot wound
Resting place	Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (born Michael King, Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)^[1] was an Americanpastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was best known for improving civil rights by using nonviolentcivil disobedience, based on his Christian beliefs. Because he was both a Ph.D. and a pastor, King was sometimes called the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. (abbreviation: the Rev. Dr. King), or just Dr Ki

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About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In 1955, he was recruited to serve as spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a campaign by the African-American population of Montgomery, Alabama to force integration of the city’s bus lines. After 381 days of nearly universal participation by citizens of the black community, many of whom had to walk miles to work each day as a result, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in transportation was unconstitutional.

In 1957, Dr. King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization designed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. He would serve as head of the SCLC until his assassination in 1968, a period during which he would emerge as the most important social leader of the modern American civil rights movement.

In 1963, he led a coalition of numerous civil rights groups in a nonviolent campaign aimed at Birmingham, Alabama, which at the time was described as the “most segregated city in America.” The subsequent brutality of the city’s p

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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., after an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, is arrested December 1 for refusing to give up her seat to