Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist. He was the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist. He was the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. 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. Hundreds of streets in the U. S. have been renamed in his honor, and the most populous county in Washington State was rededicated for him. The Martin LutherKing Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, C. C., was dedicated in 2011. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. The Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance was awarded to King on October 14, 1964, for his role in the Selma to Montgomery marches. King’s maternal grandfather Adam Daniel Williams, who was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. In 1934, the church sent King Sr. on a trip to Rome, Egypt, Jerusalem, Tunisia, and Berlin for the meeting of the Baptist World Alliance. While there, he witnessed the rise of Nazism, which he associated with the Protestant reformation leader, Martin Luther King Sr., Michael King Sr, and Alfred Daniel “A.
D. ” King. In the spring of 1931, King’s father died of a stroke at the age of 48. King Sr became assistant pastor of Ebenezers Baptist Church, where he would raise the attendance from six hundred to several thousand thousand people. The trip ended with visits to Berlin, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, and ended with King Sr.’s visit to the World Conference of the Bishops in Bethlehem, Bethlehem and Jerusalem for the first time in his life. He later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) King led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1965, he helped organize two of the three Selma-to-Montgomery marches. The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with great success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI’s COINTELPRO from 1963, forward. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. King’s older sister is Christine King Farris and his younger brother was Alfred D. Farris.
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