Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American pastor activist who developed a support civil rights for African Americans. In 1954 he became pastor of the Baptist Church of Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, with25 years of age. On December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black woman who refused to give way to a white man on a bus, Luther King Jr started a boycott. The black population supported and sustained theboycott that lasted 382 days.
The FBI began to impose surveillance on Martin Luther King, in 1961, with the hypothesis that the Communists were trying to infiltrate the civil rights movement. LutherKing organized and led marches for voting rights for African Americans, desegregation, the right to work and other basic human rights. On April 13, 1963 in Birmingbam; during his stay in prison, hewrote the famous Letter from Birmingham Jail (Letter from Birmingham Jail), an essay defines its desegregation and is a passionate statement of his crusade for justice and life.
In 1963, he organizedthe March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, concentrated known speakers such as John Lewis, Bayard Rustin ... Luther King conveyed his famous speech "I have a dream", which expressed its willingnessand hope to meet a fraternal America. On October 14, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
In late March 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled toMemphis (Tennessee) to support local black scavengers who were on strike since March 12 in order to get better pay and better treatment. On April 4, 1968 at 18 hours and one minute, Martin Luther Kingwas killed by a white segregationist on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis (Tennessee). Five days later, President Johnson declared a national day of mourning (the first by an AfricanAmerican) in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. At his funeral attended by 300,000 people.
In the Letter from Birmingham Jail, posted on April 16, 1963, while he was arrested for a nonviolent demonstration,...