Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King, Jr was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was an excellent student and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was only 15 years old. He become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.
As a civil rights activist, he was, very much like Mahathma Ghandhi, an advocate of  nonviolent methods to fight for the advancement of civil rights in the USA.
A Baptist minister, Martin Luther King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott as direct consequent of  Rosa Parks refusal to leave her seat for a white passenger.
King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

I have a dream