“If
you can't fly then run,
if
you can't run then walk,
if
you can't walk then crawl,
but
whatever you do you have to
KEEP
MOVING FORWARD.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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born
January 15, 1929
in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States
died
April 04, 1968
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male
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...ABOUT HIM...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one
of the pivotal leaders of the American civil rights movement. King was a
Baptist minister, one of the few leadership roles available to black
men at the time. He became a civil rights activist early in his career.
He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) and helped found the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first
president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King
delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Here he raised public
consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as
one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. In 1964, King became the
youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end
segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and
other non-violent means.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968,
in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King,
Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in
1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
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