I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King .Jr HD (subtitled) – YouTube
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The ReverendMartin Luther King Jr. | |
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King in 1964 | |
1st President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference | |
In office January 10, 1957 – April 4, 1968 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Ralph Abernathy |
Personal details | |
Born | Michael King Jr. January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | April 4, 1968 (aged 39) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
Cause of death | Assassination (by gunshot) |
Resting place | Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park |
Spouse(s) | Coretta Scott (m. 1953) |
Children | YolandaMartinDexterBernice |
Parent(s) | Martin Luther King Sr.Alberta Williams King |
Relatives | Christine King Farris (sister)Alfred Daniel Williams King (brother)Alveda King (niece) |
Education | Morehouse College (BA)Crozer Theological Seminary (BDiv)Boston University (PhD) |
Occupation | Baptist ministeractivist |
Known for | Civil rights movement, Peace movement |
Awards | Nobel Peace Prize (1964)Presidential Medal of Freedom (posthumously, 1977)Congressional Gold Medal (posthumously, 2004) |
Memorials | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial |
Signature | |
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African American church leader and the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience. Inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, he led targeted, nonviolent resistance against Jim Crow and other forms of discrimination.
King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights.[1] He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The civil rights movement achieved pivotal legislative gains in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent.[2] Several times King would be jailed. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI’s COINTELPRO from 1963, forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, spied on his personal life, and secretly recorded him. The FBI in 1964 mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.[3]
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam War. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People’s Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by national mourning, as well as anger leading to riots in many U.S. cities. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2003. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in cities and states throughout the United States beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and the most populous county in Washington State was rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.
Contents
- 1Early life and education
- 2Religious education, ministry, marriage and family
- 3Activism and organizational leadership
- 3.1Montgomery bus boycott, 1955
- 3.2Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- 3.3Survived knife attack, 1958
- 3.4Atlanta sit-ins, prison sentence, and the 1960 elections
- 3.5Albany Movement, 1961
- 3.6Birmingham campaign, 1963
- 3.7March on Washington, 1963
- 3.8St. Augustine, Florida, 1964
- 3.9Biddeford, Maine, 1964
- 3.10New York City, 1964
- 3.11Selma voting rights movement and “Bloody Sunday”, 1965
- 3.12Chicago open housing movement, 1966
- 3.13Opposition to the Vietnam War
- 3.14Poor People’s Campaign, 1968
- 4Assassination and aftermath
- 5Legacy
- 6Veneration
- 7Ideas, influences, and political stances
- 8State surveillance and coercion
- 9Awards and recognition
- 10Works
- 11Discography
- 12See also
- 13References
- 14External links
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