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MLK Birthday
This is when he was born -
Different Identitity
He was born named Michael King, his father changed his name to Martin -
Where he got the inspiration
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. -
Youngest man ever
He was the youngest man to win the Nobel Prize -
Pastor of Chruch
In 1954 he becme the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. -
He changed so much
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 -
President of leadership conference
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. -
Noble Peace Prize
He one the Noble Peace Prize -
He was also being tracked
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. -
Died
He was assasinated on this day