Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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His birth and death

• Michael Luther King, Jr. was born on January
  15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia
• He later changed his first name to Martin
• He was assassinated as he stood on his balcony on
  the evening of April 4th, 1968

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His family

• Martin Luther King, Jr. had a brother, Alfred,
  and a sister, Christine
• His parents were named Reverend Martin Luther
  King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King
• He married Coretta Scott in 1953

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His first job

• His first job as a pastor was in 1954
• He became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist
  Church in Montgomery, Alabama

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His famous speech

• Martin Luther King, Jr. made the I Have a Dream
  speech on August 28th, 1963
• 250,000 people were gathered in Washington, D.C.
  to hear it

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Martin and Rosa

• Rosa Parks refused to obey the law that
  segregated black and white people on buses
• She was arrested on December 5, 1955
• Martin was the leader of the association that
  led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
• The boycott ended a year later when the bus
  segregation law was changed

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Other interesting facts

• Martin Luther King, Jr. won the 1964 Nobel Peace
  Prize
• In 1964, King became the first black American to
  be honored as Time magazine's Man of the Year.