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This is when he was born
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He was born named Michael King, his father changed his name to Martin
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Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro* institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated.
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He was the youngest man to win the Nobel Prize
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In 1954 he becme the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
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On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals
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In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement.
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He one the Noble Peace Prize
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In total, some 1,650 individuals were tracked by the NSA between 1967 and 1973, though the identities of most of those people remain unknown.
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He was assasinated on this day