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On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful
Montgomery Bus Boycott.

On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for
combating
racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.

In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition
towards
poverty and the Vietnam War.         
    
    
    
    
     
   
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AN ASSASSINATION ON THIS DAY IN 1968

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Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was
fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-
story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
Tennessee.

The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation
workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet
struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was
pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He
was 39 years old.

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Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929

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Martin Luther King Jr.
(born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful
Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The night Martin Luther King Jr. came to Grosse Pointe

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ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE ON THIS DAY IN 1955

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In Montgomery,
Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was
jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white
man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws.

The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young
Baptist minister named
Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s
historic act of civil disobedience.

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The restored Rosa Parks bus as it looks today in the Henry 
Ford Museum.

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