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Part of Martin life
He was an American Baptist activist and pastor of the twentieth century born on January fifteenth of nineteen in Atlanta and died on April 4 of ninety sixty-eight in Memphis at thirty-nine years of age known primarily for fighting peacefully against segregation and racial discrimination Recite the famous speech I have a dream -
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The assassination of Martin Luther King
After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Luther King continued his fight for the equality of the black race until one day he was killed in a Memphis motel by James Earl Ray. -
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Facts about your childhood
It was the median of three brothers as a result of the marriage of Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Luther King was originally baptized as Michael King Jr. (his father's birth name), but after a family trip to Germany, Michael King Sr. decided to change his own name and that of his son to Martin Luther King, in honor of Augustinian theologian Martin Luther. -
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His youth and his academic life
At fifteen, he entered Morehouse College, a university for young African Americans from which he graduated three years later. He moved to the northeast of the country to continue his postgraduate studies and specialize in theology. He graduated in this discipline at the age of twenty-two and obtained a doctor's degree from Boston University four years later during this time, texts and information from one of the people who most influenced his way of seeing and living the lifetime -
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the fight against racial segregation
Following the arrest of a black woman after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, she decided to start a non-violent protest against the racial segregation her city was taking advantage of the resonance she had as a pastor, she suggested to the black population of not using public transport until such racist manifestations were completely eradicated. After a year after the start of the boycott against buses, racial segregation was declared illegal. -
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I have a dream speech
The success in Montgomery made Luther King's name famous for the country and more and more followers and activists joined the fight for racial equality in a march through Washington in which he advocated, especially, to improve living conditions and integration of the black population of the south of the country.