Martin Luther King,Jr

Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta city, Georgia State on 15, January, 192 . His nickname is Michael but later  his name had been changed to Martin. He had three ‌sibling.His mother name Christine Williams and his little brother name's Alberta Williams.. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and he was serving from 1914 to 1931 and his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia,.He got graduation from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania , he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class there and he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. He met with Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments in Boston. They married on 18, June, 1953. They had two sons and two daughters .

On 1, Setember, 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King was always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race. By this time,he was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation .Early in December, 1955, he was ready to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States , the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times. He was appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

He was assassinated on the evening of April 4, 1968 while he standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis. Someone shot

him at a minute, 6 PM. That time he was just 39 years old. Though  at once he was sent to hospital ,he died at 5 minutes ,7 PM.