Marthin Luther King was born on 15th January 1929 and was assassinated in 1968 .He was an American clergyman, activist and leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
He was a student of theology at Boston University, adherent of Ghandi´s teaching, which became the center of his own philosophy of life and politics. His movement was the not responding to violence with more violence. MLK led the non-violent civil rights movement that brought racial segregation in the United States to an end.
He is well-known by his "I Have A Dream" speech. It was a-seventeen-minute speech, but enough to be remembered for ever and ever.
In 1963 Martin Luther King stood in the Lincoln Memorial before 2000.000 supporters to call for a racial equality, in what would become the defining moment of the African-American rights movement and a turning point in human history.
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Protest against descrimination in 1955 formed part of a boycott against a public transport company in Montgomery, for the injustice of arresting a black woman,Rosa Parks, who refused to let her free seat to a white passenger.
Rosa Parks riding a Montgomery, Ala., bus in December 1956, after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation on buses.
He was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. His death caused serious riots in more than 100 cities and converted it into a martyr in the struggle for civil rights and racial equality.
1968 King Assassination Report (CBS News).Walter Cronkite had almost finished broadcasting the "cbs evening news" when he received word of Martin Luther King´s assassination. His report detailed the shooting and the nation´s reaction to the tragedy(CBSNews.com)
