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Born in January 15, 1929 in Atlanta
Martin Luther king was born in Atlanta in 1929, his mother, Alberta Williams king and his parent Martin Luther King Sr. decided that his name be was Michael, but he, after a trip in Germany, decided to change it for Martin Luther, in honor of Luther. -
letter for Ebenezer Baptist
Martin Luther king with 17 years send a letter at a principal editor with Atlanta city and and a this letter he wrote for a most important by the black men no have a rights and no were a american and 2 years later becomes assistant pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. -
One of the best quotes of Martin Luther King
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old, takes the bus to return home from work. In transportation, he sits in the seats reserved by law for white people and refuses to get up to give the seat to a white man. Parks is arrested and the event ends in a campaign against the segregation system. Martin Luther King joins the movement and begins a fight of non-violent civil disobedience. One year later, on November 13, the US Supreme Court declared the bus segregation system in Montgomery and Alabama unconstitutiona -
Speech "I have a dream"
This speech was the most important speech of Martin Luther King, he did in Washington DC, in front of Lincoln Memorial, in a very important manifestation of 200.000 people. In the speech, he said that he wanted a better world, on black people and white people had the same rights.
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One of the twentieth century's best-known advocates for nonviolence social change
Martin Luther King was one of the twentieth century’s best-known advocates for nonviolent social change. So powerful was the movement he inspired, that Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act in 1964. After his dead King was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, King is an icon of the civil rights movement. His life and work symbolize the quest for equality and nondiscrimination that lies at the heart of the American, and human dream. -
civil rights
After the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, which puts a legal end to racial segregation. King attends the firm. A year later, the electoral system is modified to guarantee the right to vote of African-American sended racial segregation and banned the
Most forms of discrimination in the workplace, schools, public facilities
and different requirements on the basis of racial distinctions. -
Nobel peace prize
Martin Luther King received the prize because he defended the civil rights of black people and leading a nonviolent resistance to eliminte discrimination against black people in U.S.A , in that moment he became the youngest awar-winning of the nobel peace prize. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was shot at the Lorraine Motel at Memphis, Teennessee, on april 4, in 1968. Then, he was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital, at 7:05 p.m. he was pronounced dead.
