Martin luther king

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929, in Atlanta. He worked as pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments and they had two sons and two daughters. Martin led the Montgomery Bus Boycott ( a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial division on the public transit system of Montgomery in Alabama) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference .King became a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a civil rights activist early in his career. King's efforts led to the March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He also established his reputation as a radical, and became an object of the FBI's (Federal Bureau of Investigation ) COINTELPRO , which is a series of covert and often illegal projects against political organizations, for the rest of his life. He was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. He was a kind, strong , determined and intelligent human being who helped many people realize that there´s no difference between white and colored people ,which is why he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. King's main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today .He was so important for the world history that it was created a