MARTIN LUTHER KING, PEACE ICON

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in January 15, 1929  in Atlanta Georgia USA Baptist minister.  He was assassinated  April 1968. He was the founder of Southern Christian Leadership conference. He played a major role in American civil right movement from the early 1950s

In 1955 he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the march in Washington. these activities bring about the landmark legislation in civil right act of 1964 and the voting right act of 1965. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded a peace prize in 1964. He is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. day  which is observed every third Monday in January since 1986. This year's remembrance day comes up Monday 18, TO BE PART OF THIS GREAT HORNOR PLACE ALIKE COMMENT ON THIS SITE  ON  OR BEFORE 16:00 GMT  AND stand a chance to win Enlogtec coupon if you are in Nigeria you will win an air time in your preferred communication provider.

He  father was a pastor Martin Luther King Jr. happened to be the second child of Martin Luther King Sr, (1899-1984) and Alberta Williams King (1904-1974)

He attended a public school
 

 A gifted student, King attended segregated public schools and at the age of 15 was admitted to Morehouse College, the alma mater of both his father and maternal grandfather, where he studied medicine and law. Although he had not intended to follow in his father’s footsteps by joining the ministry, he changed his mind under the mentorship of Morehouse’s president, Dr. Benjamin Mays, an influential theologian and outspoken advocate for racial equality. After graduating in 1948, King entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree, won a prestigious fellowship and was elected president of his predominantly white senior class  

In December 1 1955  the secretary of the local national Association for the Advancement of coloured people  chapter refused to give her seat  to a white passenger  Montgomery Bus  and was arrested. Activist coordinated a  Bus boycott that was to last for 381 day. Martin Luther  King Jr. led and was the spokesman.  

By the time the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating on public buses unconstitutional in November 1956, King, heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) and the activist Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), had entered the national spotlight as an inspirational proponent of organized, nonviolent resistance. (He had also become a target for white supremacists, who firebombed his family home that January.) Emboldened by the boycott’s success, in 1957 he and other civil rights activists–most of them fellow ministers–founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a group committed to achieving full equality for African Americans through nonviolence. (Its motto was “Not one hair of one head of one person should be harmed.”) He would remain at the helm of this influential organization until his death. 

Later in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. worked with a number of civil rights and religious groups to organize the March on Washington call the march  for Jobs and Freedom, a peaceful political rally designed to shed light on the injustices African Americans continued to face across the country. Held on August 28 and attended by some 200,000 to 300,000 participants, the event is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American civil rights movement and a factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The same year 1964, he became the youngest person to win the Noble Peace AWARD

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