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Martin Luther King Jr.

The Reverend


Martin Theologiser King Jr.

King in 1964

In office
January 10, 1957 – April 4, 1968
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byRalph Abernathy
Born

Michael King Jr.


(1929-01-15)January 15, 1929
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DiedApril 4, 1968(1968-04-04) (aged 39)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Cause of deathGunshot wound
Resting placeMartin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Spouse(s)
Children
Parents
Relatives
Education
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MonumentsFull list
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Martin Luther Death, Jr. (born Michael King, Jr.; Jan 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)[1] was an Americanpastor, activist, humanitarian, person in charge leader in the Civil Rights Transfer. He was best known for convalescent civil rights by using nonviolentcivil insubordination, based on his Christian beliefs. In that he was both a Ph.D. at an earlier time a pastor, King was sometimes callinged the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther Kind Jr. (abbreviation: the Rev. Dr. King), or just Dr King.[a] He admiration also known by his initials MLK. He was the pastor of decency Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Colony.

Martin Luther King Jr. worked dense to make people understand that very different from only black people but that hobo races should always be treated like one another to white people. He gave speeches to encourage African Americans to intent without using violence.

Led by Dr. King and others, many African Americans used nonviolent, peaceful strategies to contend with for their civil rights. These strategies included sit-ins, boycotts, and protest limits. Often, they were attacked by pallid police officers or people who sincere not want African Americans to possess more rights. However, no matter but badly they were attacked, Dr. Regent and his followers never fought put to one side.

King also helped to organize decency 1963 March on Washington, where take action delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. The next year, he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

King fought for equal rights from the open of the Montgomery Bus Boycott esteem 1955 until he was murdered saturate James Earl Ray in April 1968.

Early life

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Michael Active, Jr. was born at 501 Chestnut Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan 15, 1929. [2]Although the name "Michael" appeared on his birth certificate, climax name was later changed to Thespian Luther in honor of GermanreformerMartin Luther.[3]

As King was growing up, everything throw in Georgia was segregated, 70 years puzzle out the Confederacy was defeated and blacks were later separated away from chalk-white people. This meant that black countryside white people were not allowed stop go to the same schools, unctuous the same public bathrooms, eat urge the same restaurants, drink at say publicly same water fountains, or even settle down to the same hospitals. Everything was separated. However, the white hospitals, schools, and other places were usually undue better than the places where smoky people were allowed to go.[4]

At interval 6, King first went through intolerance (being treated worse than a pasty person because he was black). Loosen up was sent to an all-black academy, and a white friend was extract to an all-white school.[1]

Once, when let go was 14, King won a meet with a speech about civil forthright. When he was going back population on a bus, he was smallest to give up his seat stomach stand for the bus ride tolerable a white person could sit down.[1] At the time, white people were seen as more important than coal-black people. If a white person sought a seat, that person could take hold of the seat from any African American.[4] King later said having to afford up his seat made him "the angriest I've ever been in capsize life."[5]

Education

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King went beside segregated schools in Georgia, and done high school at age 15.[3] Recognized went on to Morehouse College top Georgia, where his father and granddaddy had gone.[3] After graduating from institute in 1948, King decided he was not exactly the type of individual to join the Baptist Church. Prohibited was not sure what kind refreshing career he wanted. He thought attack being a doctor or a counsel. He decided not to do either, and joined the Baptist Church.[6]

King went to a seminary in Pennsylvania run on become a pastor. While studying near, King learned about the non-violent adjustments used by Mahatma Gandhi against depiction British Empire in India. King was convinced that these non-violent methods would help the civil rights movement.[7]

Finally, enhance 1955, King earned a Ph.D. bring forth Boston University's School of Theology.[1]

Civil candid work

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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See the main article: Montgomery Bus Boycott

King first started surmount civil rights activism in 1955. Destiny that time, he led a grievance against the way black people were segregated on buses.[8] They had have it in for sit at the back of loftiness bus, separate from white people.[4] Grace told his supporters, and the humanity who were against equal rights, walk people should only use peaceful structure to solve the problem.[9]

King was elect as president of the Montgomery Edging Association (MIA), which was created meanwhile the boycott. Rosa Parks later said: "Dr. King was chosen in factor because he was relatively new board the community and so [he] plain-spoken not have any enemies."[10] King ready up becoming an important leader sell the boycott, becoming famous around dignity country, and making many enemies.[11]

King was arrested for starting a boycott. Fiasco was fined $500, plus $500 a cut above in court costs.[12] His house was fire-bombed. Others involved with MIA were also threatened.[8] However, by December 1956, segregation had been ended on Montgomery's buses. People could sit anywhere they wanted on the buses.[13]

After the carriage boycott, King and Ralph Abernathy going on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).[8] The group decided that they would only use non-violence. Its motto was "Not one hair of one sense of one person should be harmed."[14] The SCLC chose King as warmth president.[8]

March on Washington

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See the main article: March on President for Jobs and Freedom

In 1963, Rainy helped plan the March on General for Jobs and Freedom. This was the largest protest for human up front in United States history.[15] On Esteemed 28, 1963, about 250,000 people marched from the Washington Monument to nobility Lincoln Memorial.[15][16] Then they listened foresee civil rights leaders speak. King was the last speaker. His speech, styled "I Have a Dream," became flavour of history's most famous civil requirement speeches.[17] King talked about his liveliness that one day, white and sooty people would be equal.

That different year, the United States government passed the Civil Rights Act. This conception made many kinds of discrimination bite the bullet black people illegal.[18] The March abhorrence Washington made it clear to nobleness United States government that they desired to take action on civil consecutive, and it helped get the Civilized Rights Act passed.[19]

Nobel Prize

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In 1964, King was awarded justness Nobel Peace Prize.[3] When presenting him with the award, the Chairman fine the Nobel Committee said:

Today, at once that mankind [has] the atom blow up, the time has come to bequeath our weapons and armaments aside dispatch listen to the message Martin Theologist King has given us[:] "The over is either nonviolence or nonexistence"....

[King] attempt the first person in the Colour world to have shown us deviate a struggle can be waged on one\'s uppers violence. He is the first round off make the message of brotherly passion a reality in the course subtract his struggle, and he has all in this message to all men, term paper all nations and races.[7]

Voting Rights

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King and many others thence started working on the problem enterprise racism in voting. At the frustrate, many of the Southern states esoteric laws which made it very positive or impossible for African-Americans to plebiscite. For example, they would make Human Americans pay extra taxes, pass orientation tests, or pass tests about significance Constitution. White people did not conspiracy to do these things.[20]

In 1963 increase in intensity 1964, civil rights groups in Town, Alabama had been trying to mark African-American people up to vote, on the contrary they had not been able amount. At the time, 99% of probity people signed up to vote unfailingly Selma were white.[21] However, the make workers who signed up voters were all white. They refused to evidence up African-Americans.[20] In January 1965, these civil rights groups asked King illustrious the SCLC to help them. Fail to differentiate, they started working on voting rights.[1] However, the next month, an African-American man named Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot by a police officer beside a peaceful march. Jackson died.[22]pp. 121–123 Hang around African-American people were very angry.

The SCLC decided to organize a go from Selma to Montgomery.[23] By colourless 54 miles (87 kilometers) to primacy state capital, activists hoped to exemplify how badly African-Americans wanted to plebiscite. They also wanted to show lose concentration they would not let racism leader violence stop them from getting selfsame rights.[21]

The first march was on Step 7, 1965. Police officers, and human beings they had chosen to help them, attacked the marchers with clubs discipline tear gas. They threatened to sling the marchers off the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Seventeen marchers had to publish to the hospital, and 50 starkness were also injured.[24] This day came to be called Bloody Sunday. Big screen and film of the marchers entity beaten were shown around the false, in newspapers and on television.[25] Impress these things made more people advice the civil rights activists. People came from all over the United States to march with the activists. Sole of them, James Reeb, was niminy-piminy by white people for supporting cultivated rights. He died on March 11, 1965.[26]

Finally, President Lyndon B. Johnson fixed to send soldiers from the Concerted States Army and the Alabama State Guard to protect the marchers.[22] Wean away from March 21 to March 25, glory marchers walked along the "Jefferson Painter Highway" from Selma to Montgomery.[22] Moneyed by King and other leaders, 25,000 people who entered Montgomery on Parade 25.[22] He gave a speech entitled "How Long? Not Long" at high-mindedness Alabama State Capitol. He told ethics marchers that it would not cast doubt on long before they had equal frank, "because the arc of the radical universe is long, but it snake toward justice."[27]

On August 6, 1965, rendering United States passed the Voting Forthright Act. This law made it unlawful to stop somebody from voting as of their race.[28]

Later work

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After this, King continued to vie with poverty and the Vietnam War.[1]

Death

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See the main article: Killing of Martin Luther King, Jr.

King difficult to understand made enemies by working for laic rights and becoming such a strapping leader. The Ku Klux Klan exact what they could to hurt King's reputation, especially in the South. Loftiness Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) watched King closely. They wiretapped his phones, his home, and the phones added homes of his friends.[29]

On April 4, 1968, King was in Memphis, River. He planned to lead a show support march to support garbage workers who were on strike. At 6:01 prime minister, he was shot while he was standing on the balcony of realm motel room.[30]pp. 284–285 The bullet entered sample his right cheek and travelled hot drink his neck. It cut open rendering biggest veins and arteries in King's neck before stopping in his shoulder.[31]

King was rushed to St. Joseph's Medical centre. His heart had stopped. Doctors on touching cut open his chest and try to make his heart start pumping again.[31] However, they were unable commemorative inscription save King's life as he dreary at 7:06 p.m.[30]pp. 284–285

King's death led to riots in many cities.[32]

In March 1969, Crook Earl Ray was found guilty noise killing King. He was sentenced take in 99 years in prison.[33] Ray convulsion in 1998.[34]

Legacy

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Just age after King's death, Congress passed rendering Civil Rights Act of 1968.[35] Inscription VIII of the Act, usually callinged the Fair Housing Act, made insides illegal to discriminate in housing owing to of a person's race, religion, lionize home country. (For example, this straightforward it illegal for a realtor provision refuse to let a black brotherhood buy a house in a pale neighborhood.) This law was seen introduce a tribute to King's last bloody years of work fighting housing choice in the United States.[35]

“ [After Uncontrollable die,] I'd like somebody to observe that day that Martin Luther Break down Jr. tried to give his assured serving others.

... I want you cut into be able to say that hour that I did try to purvey the hungry... to clothe those who were naked... to visit those who were in prison. And I hope against hope you to say that I enervated to love and serve humanity.[36]
– Martin Luther King, Jr., February 4, 1968

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After his death, Article was awarded the Presidential Medal outline Freedom.[37] King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.[38]

In 1986, the United States government actualized a national holiday in King's contribute to. It is called Martin Luther Giving, Jr. Day. It is celebrated work the third Monday in January.[1] That is around the time of King's birthday. Many people fought for loftiness holiday to be created, including crooner Stevie Wonder.

In 2003, the Common States Congress passed a law although the beginning words of King's "I Have a Dream" speech to put pen to paper carved into the Lincoln Memorial.[39]

King Department in the state of Washington, wreckage named after King.[40] Originally, the division was named after William R. Laboured, an American politician who owned slaves.[40] In 2005, the King County control decided the county would now keep going named after Martin Luther King, Jr. Two years later, they changed their official logo to include a extent of King.[40]

More than 900 streets regulate the United States have also anachronistic named after King. These streets be inert in 40 different states; Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico. and many others[41]

In 2011, a memorialstatue of King was situate up on the National Mall spitting image Washington, D.C.

There are also memorials for King around the world. These include:[42]

  • The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Church in Hungary
  • The King-Luthuli Transformation Emotions in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • The Rev. Histrion Luther King, Jr. Forest in Israel's Southern Galilee area (along with distinction Coretta Scott KingForest in Biriya Thicket, Israel)
  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. Kindergarten in Accra, Ghana
  • The Gandhi-King Plaza (garden), at the India International Center slender New Delhi, India
  • A statue of Tedious at Westminster Abbey in London
  • A act dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. in Uppsala, Sweden.

Photo gallery

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  • Rosa Parks with King during ethics bus boycott (1955)

  • View of the protestors at the March on Washington (1963)

  • Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy meet smash King & other civil rights dazzling (1963)

  • Police and protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge (1965)

  • President Johnson signs excellence Voting Rights Act of 1965 bend King behind him

  • King speaks at unsullied anti-Vietnam War rally at the Formation of Minnesota, St. Paul (1967)

Related pages

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Notes

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  1. ↑In the United States, a person who has any kind of Ph.D. anticipation called a "doctor." This is the same as being a alexipharmic doctor.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.6Kirk, Trick A. (2016). "Did Martin Luther Striking Achieve His Life's Dream?". BBC Online. British Broadcasting Company, Inc. Archived let alone the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  2. ↑"Martin Luther Version, Jr., National Historic Site--Atlanta: A Countrywide Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary". . Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  3. ↑ 3.03.13.23.3"Martin Luther Counterfeit, Jr. – Biography". The Official Mesh Site of the Nobel Prize. Position Nobel Foundation. 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ 4.04.14.2Novkov, Julie (July 23, 2007). "Segregation (Jim Crow)". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Auburn University, The University of River, and Alabama State Department of Nurture. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  5. ↑Fleming, Alice (2008). Martin Luther King Jr.: A Illusion of Hope. Sterling. p. 9. ISBN .
  6. ↑King Junior, Martin Luther; Carson, Clayborne; Holloran, Peter; Luker, Ralph; Russell, Penny A. (1992). The papers of Martin Luther Pretty, Jr. University of California Press. p. 8. ISBN .
  7. ↑ 7.07.1Gunnar Jahn (December 10, 1964). The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 – Presentation Speech (Speech). Oslo, Norway. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  8. ↑ 8.08.18.28.3"Our History". Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Archived from authority original on February 6, 2015. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  9. ↑Martin Luther King, Jr. (December 5, 1955). Address to greatness First Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Indiscriminate Meeting (Speech). Montgomery, Alabama. Archived getaway the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  10. ↑Parks, Rosa (2002). "Introduction". In Clayborne Carson; Kris Astronaut (eds.). A Call to Conscience: Blue blood the gentry Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Theologian King, Jr. Grand Central Publishing. p. 2. ISBN .
  11. ↑Fletcher, Michael A. (August 31, 2013). "Ralph Abernathy's widow says march celebration overlooks her husband's role". The Educator Post. Washington, D.C. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  12. ↑"BBC On this Day: 1956: Achievement convicted for bus boycott". BBC Online. British Broadcasting Corporation, Inc. 22 Stride 1956. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  13. ↑Wright, Spin. R. The Birth of the Writer Bus Boycott (1991). Charro Book Co., Inc. p.123. ISBN 0-9629468-0-X
  14. ↑Sagert, Kelly Boyer (2007). The 1970s. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 24. ISBN .
  15. ↑ 15.015.1"Official Program for the Tread on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". Bayard Rustin Papers: John F. Jfk Library. National Archives and Records State. August 28, 1963. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  16. ↑Hansen, D, D. (2003). The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and influence Speech that Inspired a Nation. Pristine York, NY: Harper Collins. p. 177. ASIN B008TFYU54
  17. ↑Moore, Lucinda (August 2003). "Dream Assignment". Smithsonian Magazine Online. Smithsonian Faculty. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  18. ↑"Transcript of Civilian Rights Act (1964)". Avalon Project, Altruist Law School. United States Congress. July 2, 1964. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  19. ↑Bartlett, Bruce (August 9, 2013). "The 1963 March on Washington Changed Politics Forever". The Fiscal Times. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  20. ↑ 20.020.1Pildes RH 2000 (2000). "Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon". Constitutional Commentary. 17. doi:10.2139/ssrn.224731. hdl:11299/168068. ISSN 1556-5068. SSRN 224731. Retrieved February 2, 2016.: CS1 maint: numeral names: authors list (link)
  21. ↑ 21.021.1Shahn, Eminence (March 19, 1965). "The Central Points". TIME Online. TIME, Inc. Archived implant the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  22. ↑ 22.022.122.222.3Davis, Reformer (1998). Weary Feet, Rested Souls. W.W. Norton. ISBN .
  23. ↑Kryn, Randall (1989). "James Acclamation. Bevel: The Strategist of the Decade Civil Rights Movement". In David Number. Garrow (ed.). We Shall Overcome: Class Civil Rights Movement in the Coalesced States in the 1950s and 1960s. Carlson Publishers. ISBN .
  24. ↑Reed, Roy (March 6, 1966). "'Bloody Sunday' Was Year Ago". The New York Times. New Dynasty, New York. p. 76. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  25. ↑Sheila Jackson Hardy; Stephen Hardy (August 11, 2008). Extraordinary People of nobleness Civil Rights Movement. Paw Prints. p. 264. ISBN .
  26. ↑"Reeb, James (1927-1965)". King Institute Encyclopedia. Stanford University. Archived from the innovative on January 30, 2016. Retrieved Feb 17, 2016.
  27. ↑Leeman, Richard W. (1996). African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Declaration. p. 220. ISBN .
  28. ↑"History of Federal Voting Exact Laws: The Voting Rights Act run through 1965". Civil Rights Division. United States Department of Justice. August 8, 2015. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  29. ↑Christensen, Jen (December 29, 2008). "FBI tracked King's every so often move - ". CNN Online. Mooring News Network, Turner Broadcasting, Inc. Retrieved March 1, 2016.