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media type="custom" key="5462149" (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html, http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/martin-luther-king-jr-/background-and-family.html) =The Life of Martin Luther King Jr. = **Background** Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael Luther King in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929. He was one of the three children of Martin Luther King Sr., pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Alberta (Williams) King, a former schoolteacher. King was the dominant mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, keynote speaker at the March on Washington, and was the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. King's policy of nonviolent protest was the dominant force in the civil rights movement from 1958-1968.

After graduating high school, King studied at Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1944. King entered the ministry and received his bachelor's degree in 1948 and doctorate in 1953. King then married Coretta Scott in Marion, Atlanta in 1953 and would later on have four children. King then became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Atlanta where he made his first mark on the civil-rights movement. (http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/martin-luther-king-jr-/background-and-family.html)

King's first civil-rights movement was the mobilizing of the black community during a 382-day boycott of the city's bus lines. After suffering through violent harassment, a bombing of his home, and after overcoming arrest, King achieved his first goal. The U.S. Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. As a national hero and a civil-rights figure of growing importance, King gathered black leaders and created the basic groundwork for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. King was elected its president and began helping other communities organize protests against discrimination. During 1957, King traveled 780,000 miles and made 208 speeches on gaining civil rights for African Americans.
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King then finished his first book, "Stride Toward Freedom", his memory of the Montgomery bus boycott, went to India to learn about Ghandi's passive resistance for civil rights and then returned to the United States in 1960 to become co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. King was very influential as a civil-rights leader as he met with President John F. Kennedy to urge support for civil rights in 1962. King led a mass protest in Birmingham for fair hiring practices and the desegregation of department-store facilities where his nonviolent tactics were put to the test. King was arrested but he was not silenced, he wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" to disprove his critics which later on became a classic of the civil-rights movement.

On August 28, 1963, King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech to 250,000 civil-rights supporters at the Lincoln Memorial. Time magazine then designated him as its Person of the Year for 1963. On December 10, 1964, King received a great honor when he was named recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. However, King did not stop there. In 1965, King led a voter-registration campaign, protesting discrimination in voter-registration, that ended in the Selma-to-Montgomery Freedom March. (http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2010/January/20060109162734jmnamdeirf0.3977777.html, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html) Further Accomplishments ** King continued being a leader of the civil-rights movement, but he achieved a variety of goals. King brought his campaign to Chicago, where he started programs to rehabilitate the slums and provide housing. King supported the cause of the Vietnamese war. He turned his attention to the domestic issue of poverty, which he thought was directly related to the Vietnam struggle. He requested guaranteed family income, he threatened national boycotts, and he discussed disrupting cities by nonviolent "camp-ins". With this mindset, King began planning a massive march of the poor on Washington, D.C. thinking that Congress would have to interfere and come up with a solution. King interrupted these plans to support the Memphis sanitation men's strike. He wanted to discourage violence and focus national attention on the troubles of the poor and unorganized workers of the city. King helped the men negotiate for basic union representation and long-overdue raises. Unfortunately, King never got back to his poverty plans because he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, but his legacy has lived on. Today, the Lorraine Hotel where he was shot is now called the National Civil Rights Museum and King's birthday, January 15th, is a national holiday. (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/26611/analysis_of_martin_luther_king_and.html, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html)
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// All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. // - Martin Luther King Jr. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/martin_luther_king_jr.html)  (http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2010/January/20060109162734jmnamdeirf0.3977777.html, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.)  media type="custom" key="5568369" (Common. //A Dream//. 2006. Mp3 file., AP images)  media type="custom" key="5567241" (http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2010/January/20060109162734jmnamdeirf0.3977777.html, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html)

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