Martin Luther King
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Martin Luther King
(Atlanta, 1929 - Memphis, USA, 1968) American Baptist Pastor. The son of a Baptistminister, Martin Luther King studied theology at Boston University. From a young age became aware of the situation of social and racial segregation of blacks living intheir country, and especially the southern states.
In 1954 he took over a church in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. Showed hischarisma and his decision to fight for civil rights by peaceful methods, inspired by the figure of Mahatma Gandhi and the theory of civil disobedience of Henry David Thoreau.In 1960 I take some black students from Birmingham, Alabama, to start a nationwide campaign. That event was Martin Luther King encarselado andthen with the help of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then candidate for President of the United States was released. With that achieved equal access to blacks to libraries,cafeterias and parking lots.
In the summer of 1963, led a huge march on Washington, attended by some 250 thousand people, to whom they delivered one ofhis finest speeches for peace and equality among human beings.
In March 1965 he led a rally of thousands of civil rights advocates. The struggle of Martin LutherKing had a tragic ending: the April 4, 1968 was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray, Quie was arrested by police, said to be the author of the murder and wasconvicted with circumstantial evidence. Years later retracted his statement and, with the support of the King family, called for reopening the case and given a new trial.
(Atlanta, 1929 - Memphis, USA, 1968) American Baptist Pastor. The son of a Baptistminister, Martin Luther King studied theology at Boston University. From a young age became aware of the situation of social and racial segregation of blacks living intheir country, and especially the southern states.
In 1954 he took over a church in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. Showed hischarisma and his decision to fight for civil rights by peaceful methods, inspired by the figure of Mahatma Gandhi and the theory of civil disobedience of Henry David Thoreau.In 1960 I take some black students from Birmingham, Alabama, to start a nationwide campaign. That event was Martin Luther King encarselado andthen with the help of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then candidate for President of the United States was released. With that achieved equal access to blacks to libraries,cafeterias and parking lots.
In the summer of 1963, led a huge march on Washington, attended by some 250 thousand people, to whom they delivered one ofhis finest speeches for peace and equality among human beings.
In March 1965 he led a rally of thousands of civil rights advocates. The struggle of Martin LutherKing had a tragic ending: the April 4, 1968 was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray, Quie was arrested by police, said to be the author of the murder and wasconvicted with circumstantial evidence. Years later retracted his statement and, with the support of the King family, called for reopening the case and given a new trial.
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