Peace Day Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.? Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
Facts about Martin Luther King Jr. -Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid 1950s.
Facts about Martin Luther King Jr. -King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and inspirational speeches he played a principal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the civil Right Act of 1964 ant the Voting rights of 1965.
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that left all world in shock.
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