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Hace 4 días · Martin Luther King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
- The Letter From The Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights, Nonviolence,...
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights, SCLC, Nonviolence:...
- Legacy
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights, Nonviolence,...
- Coretta Scott King
Following the assassination of her husband in 1968 and the...
- Reies Tijerina
Reies Tijerina (born September 21, 1926, Fall City, Texas,...
- Mohandas Gandhi
Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages...
- Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich (born August 20, 1886, Starzeddel, Brandenburg,...
- A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph (born April 15, 1889, Crescent City,...
- The Letter From The Birmingham Jail
Hace 5 días · Martin Luther King, Jr. remains arguably the most recognisable African American figure in world history. First thrust into the international spotlight courtesy of his leadership of a boycott of the public bus system in Montgomery, Alabama, where he was pastor of a local church, King became the lightning rod for the civil rights ...
Hace 4 días · Selma March, political march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital, Montgomery, that occurred March 21–25, 1965. The march became a landmark in the American civil rights movement and directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Hace 1 día · Martin Luther King Junior was an American Baptist Minister and the Leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. He organised a number o...
Hace 1 día · The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr. she was thought of as his ‘other wife’ By Jason Miller , North Carolina State University April 26, 2024
Hace 1 día · Garrow publishes content from FBI files noting that a woman named Dorothy Cotton was King’s “” He also details noting that King’s wife, Coretta, “berated” him “for not spending enough time alone with her.”. At the time of the phone call, according to the FBI files, King was with Dorothy at a hideaway apartment in Atlanta.
Hace 2 días · Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was for all people to be free and treated equally. In August 1963, King delivered his famous speech in which he called upon America to do what it promised. The promise, according to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, was that all men would be treated equally.
