Dr. King

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Contributions to African American History         Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a minister, philosophist, and civil-rights action leader. Dr. King believed that all men were equal and that the southeasterly should intergrate itself.

        Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, at his family home in Atlanta, Georgia. King was an eloquent Baptist Minister and leader of the civil rights movement in America from the mid 1950?s until his assassination in 1968. King promoted nonviolent means to achieve civil rights straighten and was awarded the Nobel pacification Prize in 1964 for his efforts. As a parson of a Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, King led a Black boycott. He and ninety others were arrested and indicted under the provisions of a law making it illegal to conspire to obstruct the cognitive process of a business. The ultimate success of the Montgomery boycott make Dr. King a guinea pig hero, and gained Dr. King a national re upchuckation. In Dr. King?s 1963 ?Letter from Birmingham Jail?, it stimulate a growing national civil rights movement. In Birmingham, the culture was to completely end the system of segregation in every aspect of life and in job discrimination. Also in 1963, King led a massive march on Washington, D.C., where he gave his now famous ?I Have A Dream? speech. King?



s tactics of active nonviolence had put civil rights squarely on the national agenda(Carson).

        Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. matrimonial Coretta Scott, daughter of Obadiah and Bernice Scott of Marion, Alabama. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. King: Yolunda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice Albertine(Carson).

         aft(prenominal) he became a civil rights leader and a Nobel Peace Prize winning advocate of nonviolent struggle, in the ? restrained recesses? of his heart,

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