Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Leader of the American-African Civil Rights Movement.
- PHD in philosophy at the age of 26.
- was named as Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963.
- Was elected as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964.
- 250,000 people attended his famous anti-racist speech "I Have a Dream" in Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..
- Acting as a priest with the aim of trying to end segregation and legal inequality between white and black.
- During his struggles, he was imprisoned 29 times.
- Led a 54-kilometer demonstration to obtain black’s right to vote and many other protests.
- Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" lecture in 1963 in Washington:
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood…
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
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