Martin Luther King: Famous Book by Kalyani Mookherji: Martin Luther King
Jan 2020 · Prabhat Prakashan
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King was born on January 15; 1929; in Atlanta; Georgia; to Reverend Martin Luther King; Sr.; and Alberta Williams King. King's legal name at birth was Michael King; and his father was also born Michael King; but the elder King changed his and his son's names following a 1934 trip to Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin. King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957; serving as its first president. With the SCLC; King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany; Georgia (the Albany Movement); and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham; Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington; where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There; he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. On October 14; 1964; King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965; he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches; and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life; King expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War; alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". In 1968; King was planning a national occupation of Washington; D.C.; to be called the Poor People's Campaign; when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis; Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.
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