King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a man of impressive moral presence who devoted his life to the fight for full 
citizenship rights for the poor, disadvantaged and racially oppressed in the United States.  Born on January 15, 
1929, in Atlanta, Ga., he was the second of three children of the Reveron Martin and Mrs. Alberta Williams 
King. 
King married his whife Coretta Scott King, in June 1953.

King's successful organization of the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, witch concerned the segregation of 
seats on city buses that with the assistance of the Reveron Ralph Abernthy and Edward Nixon, catapulted him 
into national position as a leader of the Civil rights movement.

King studied the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and further developed the Indian leader's doctrine of 
satyagraha  witch means "holding to the truth" and nonviolent civil disobedience.
In 1960 he accepted copastorship with his father of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and became 
president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 

He organized the massive March on Washington (August 28, 1963) where, in his brilliant "I Have a Dream" 
speech, he "subpoenaed the conscience of the nation-before the judgment seat of morality".
In January 1964, Time magazine chose King Man of the Year. He was then the first black American so 
honored. Later that year he became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Bring the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible". was one of the many famous 
qoutations from King that "says it all".
Having begun to recognize the deeper relationships of economics and poverty to racism, King now called for a 
"reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values". Along with demands for stronger civil and voting 
rights and for a meaningful poverty budget, he spoke out against the Vietnam War.