Who was Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Who I' am?
- Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African American church leader and the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
- What I made?
- - Martin Luther King Jr. led the bus boycott in 1955 that was sparked by Rosa Parks.- He helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 which was an organization that worked for civil rights.- Martin Luther King Jr. fought for and achieve mandatory equal voting rights in America for blacks and whites.- Martin Luther King Jr. led lunch counter sit-ins where he and other blacks and whites demanded equal treatment in restaurants for people of all races.- Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent peaceful demonstrations proved to the world that action without violence can be effective and successful.- Because of Martin Luther King Jr., it is no longer legal in the United States to segregate or discriminate based on skin color.- The standard has been set for all nations to treat everyone equally regardless of skin color because of the work of Martin Luther King Jr.
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