Martin Luther King
Yesterday was would of been Martin Luther King’s 77th birthday. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. He studied to be a minister and moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to preach at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. In 1954, the year the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools. In 1955, King led a boycott of the city’s buses after an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. The boycott lasted more than a year, but led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision that banned seating separated by race on buses. In 1963, King led 250,000 people in a march on Washington, D.C., to support civil rights legislation. The event’s highlight was King’s famous speech, “I Have a Dream.” The next year, King won the Nobel Peace Prize. “I accept this prize on behalf of all men who love peace and brotherhood,” he said at the ceremony.
King will always be remembered.
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