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Born in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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Activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to boycott the transit system and chose King as their leader.
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He and his party were warmly received by India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and others.
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At this post he devoted most of his time to the SCLC and the civil rights movement.
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He was arrested with 33 young people protesting segregation at the lunch counter in an Atlanta department store, was released only upon the intercession of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.
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An interracial assembly of more than 200,000 gathered peaceably in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. Here he gave the speech famous “I Have a Dream”.
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Authorizing the federal government to enforce desegregation of public accommodations and outlawing discrimination in publicly owned facilities, as well as in employment.
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king received the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December.
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King organized an initial march the need for a federal voting-rights law that would provide legal support for the enfranchisement of African Americans in the South.
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Resulting in the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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At a mammoth peace rally in that city, he committed himself irrevocably to opposing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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While standing on the second-story balconY, King was killed by a sniper’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee
