Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. in Berlin (german-way.com) When Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929, his birth certificate listed his name as “Michael King Jr.” – after his father Michael King Senior. How and when did Michael King become Martin Luther King?

I hope that well meaning Negro leaders and individuals in the Negro community here will now look at this man who gets other people in trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit. If anybody is to be hurt or killed in the wake of his highly publicized marches and demonstrations, he apparently is going to be sure that it will be someone other than Martin Luther King. Senator Byrd on Martin Luther King Jr. (29 March 1968)

“For All . . . A Non-Segregated Society,” A Message for Race Relations Sunday (kinginstitute.stanford.edu) King penned the following message for the National Council of Churches’ thirty-fifth annual observance of Race Relations Sunday. King submitted a draft on 4 September 1956, and by November the NCC had begun distributing the final version in a pamphlet along with twelve “Suggestions for Action” that churches could use in the struggle against segregation.

Martin Luther King Jr. (Wikipedia) Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A Black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination in the United States.

Martin Luther King Jr. (Wikiquote) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964. He was the husband of Coretta Scott King, and father of Yolanda King and Martin Luther King III.