Martin Luther King Jr. :
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights leader. He was born in 1929. In 1948 he received a degree in divinity, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather who were Baptist(3) ministers.Martin Luther King Jr. became a pastor at a church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1950. There he joined in the struggle for African American rights. He led a boycott against segregated seating on buses and forced the bus company to allow African Americans to sit wherever they chose. He believed that the best way to win black rights was to protest in non-violent ways. He led many protests and was arrested for his acts, but he didn't give up.
In August 1963 he led over 250,000 people in a march on Washington. There he gave his famous speech,
"I have a dream that one day the nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together in brotherhood. 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."
In 1964 the Civil Rights Bill was passed and Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968 he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. 
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