Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. The world's greatest leader and hero.

 Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. The world's greatest leader and hero.

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Michael Luther King, Jr., later known as Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on January 15, 1929, and died on April 4, 1968. His grandfather, who served as pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta from 1914 until 1931, started the family's protracted tenure there; his father has since taken over, and Martin Luther has served as co-pastor since 1960 until his death. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, where he completed high school at the age of fifteen. He earned his B. A. from Morehouse College, a prestigious black university in Atlanta, where both his father and grandfather had received their degrees, in 1948. following three years of Crozer's theological training.

He received the B.D. in 1951 from the Pennsylvania Theological Seminary, where he was voted class president of a senior class that was largely white. With the aid of a grant he had received at Crozer, he began graduate work at Boston University, finishing his residency in 1953 and earning his PhD in 1955. Coretta Scott, a young woman with exceptional intellectual and creative abilities, was someone he met in Boston and later married. The family welcomed two daughters and two sons into the world.

Martin Luther King was appointed pastor of Montgomery, Alabama's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1954. King, who has always been a steadfast advocate for the rights of people of colour, was by this point a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, the nation's premier organisation of its sort. Early in December 1955, he was prepared to take the helm of the bus boycott, which Gunnar Jahn had just described in his address honouring the laureate as the first significant Negro nonviolent movement of modern times in the United States. 382 days passed during the boycott. 

Blacks and whites rode the buses together on December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the statutes requiring bus segregation were unconstitutional. King suffered personal abuse, had his home bombed, and was incarcerated during these days of the boycott, but he also rose to prominence as a top-tier Negro leader.

A group established to offer fresh leadership for the now-emerging civil rights movement, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, elected him president in 1957. He borrowed Gandhi's operational methods and Christianity's guiding principles for this organisation. King appeared everywhere there was injustice, protest, and action during the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, travelling more than six million miles and giving over 250 speeches. In the meantime, he produced five books and a plethora of articles. During these years, he organised a huge demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, drawing worldwide attention and creating what he called a coalition of conscience.

He directed the peaceful march of 250,000 people to Washington, D.C., where he delivered his speech, "I Have a Dream," met with President John F. Kennedy, and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was arrested up to twenty times and assaulted at least four times. He was given five honorary degrees. He planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters.

Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, receiving it at the age of 35. He declared that he would donate the $54,123 award money to the advancement of the civil rights movement after learning of his selection.

He was shot and killed on the evening of April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was about to lead a protest march supporting the city's striking trash workers.