Martin Luther King Jr Biography in English | American Minister | Famous Leaders.

 

Martin Luther King jr. was a civil rights activist who was born in Atlanta Georgia The United States on January 15th1929his father's name was Martin Luther King senior and mother's name was Alberta Williams King his father was a pastor his mother was an accomplished organist and quieter he had two 

siblings he went to book her to lie a pharaohWashington High School he started his college education at Morehouse College at the young age of 15after After getting his degree in sociology from Morehouse Martin got a Divinity degree from Kreuzer seminary and then got his doctor's degree in theology from 

Boston University on June 18, 1953, King married Coretta Scott was an accomplished singer father, and a civil rights activist at the age of 24the couple had four children in 1954Martin Luther King jr. joined the DexterAvenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama as pastor later he became a member of the 

executive committee of a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and began to work for their rights in his first major civil rights activist he led the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to 56 Martin was arrested and his house was bombedMartin prevailed and segregation on the 

Montgomery buses came to an end next in1957 Southern Christian LeadershipConference was established and King was elected its president a position he held until his death on May 17th 1957Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized a large nonviolent demonstration which they 

called prayer pilgrimage for freedom the meeting was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in his first national speech titled give us the ballot king called for voting rights for blacks in 1959 king traveled to India where he visited Mahatma Gandhi's place the trip had a huge impact on him and he 

became more committed to non-violence in February 1960 a group of African American students began a nonviolent setting movement in Greensboro NorthCarolina the movement quickly spread to several other cities by August they were able to abolish segregation at lunch counters in 27 cities when King 

refused to move out of the white area he along with 36 others was arrested but soon released he again violated probation on traffic conviction and was really he was led off quickly King returned to Albany in July 1962 and was really refused bail but the police chief discreetly arranged it and he was forcefully 

released on April 3rd,1963 the SCLC began another nonviolent campaign against racial segregation as well as economic injustice in Birmingham Alabama on April12th King was arrested and put in Birmingham jail where he had to put up with an unusually harsh condition here he wrote an open letter 

from jail in the mentioned why we cannot wait for that became famous as the letter from Birmingham city jail then he helped to organize the famous march on Washington over 250,000people attended this March in an effort to show the importance of civil rights legislation some of the issues, the March hope 

to accomplish included an end to segregation in public schools protection from police abuse and to get laws passed that would prevent discrimination in employment this time Martin gave his I have a dream speech this speech has become one of the most famous speeches in history the march on Washington 

was a great success the Civil Rights Act was passed a year later in 1964on March 29, 1968, he traveled to MemphisTennesseein support of the strike health by the black sanitary Public Works employees his last speech I've been to the mountain top was made on April 3rd at Memphis on April 4th, 1968 while 

standing in a motel's balcony he was shot by a white fanatic at 6:01 p.m. he was immediately taken to st. Joseph'sHospital where he underwent emergency surgery but died at 7:05 p.m. he was only39 years old then darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate can not drive out hate only love can do that said Martin Luther King jr.