Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968

Notes

Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr. on 15 January 1929 and died on 4 April 1968. Michael King Jr. is the alias already stored on this Echo, and the years read 1929–1968. The summary names a minister who led the American civil rights movement by nonviolent resistance. The public record describes that work as nonviolence and, at times, civil disobedience against legalized segregation. The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize citation reads “for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population.” Those are the committee’s words, taken from the Nobel Prize facts page. The same page names his “I have a dream” speech as a famous address. This note uses that title only. It does not reprint the speech, and it does not add a city, a school, or a pulpit that is not already on the sheet. The dates of birth and death are the ones in the English Wikipedia introduction checked for this package. This research sheet is the page reached by martinlutherking.si.

External reading:

• Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
• The King Center
• Nobel Peace Prize 1964 — facts