Martin Luther King
Martin Luther KingMartin Luther King
On January 15,1929 Michael Luther King Jr., which was later changed to Martin, was
born. His father Michael Luther King was a Baptist minister and his mother was a school
teacher named Alberta King. In 1948 King graduated from Morehouse College in
Atlanta, Georgia. with a Bachelor of Arts. After King�s successful campaign to achieve
the desegregation of public facilities in Birmington, Alabama in 1965, he concentrated
most of his time and efforts on the voter-registration drive in Selma, Alabama to
Montgomery, Alabama in March 1963.
King inspired and planned the poor peoples campaign, a march on Washington
DC, in 1968 to show the relationship of poverty to urban violence. But he did not live to
take part in it. Early in 1968 he traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike of
Poorly paid sanitation workers. There, on April 4, he was assassinated by a sniper named,
James Earl Ray. King�s death shocked the nation and was the result of a lot of rioting by
blacks in many cities. He was buried in Atlanta under a monument inscribed with the
final words of his famous � I have a Dream address�. Which was taken from an old slave
song, the inscription read: �Free at Last,/Free at Last,/Thank God Almighty,/I�m Free at
Last.�
Even our current president Bill Clinton had this quote to say about Martin Luther
King Jr.:...
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