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Martin Luther King Jr., born in Atlanta (Georgia) on January 15, 1929 and murdered on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, is an African-American Baptist pastor, a non-violent activist for the civil rights of blacks in the United States. United, for peace and against poverty.
He organizes and directs actions such as the boycott of Montgomery buses to defend the right to vote, desegregation and employment of ethnic minorities. He delivered a famous speech on August 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the March for Jobs and Freedom: "I have a dream". He is supported by John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the fight against racial segregation in the United States; most of these rights will be promoted by the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act under the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Martin Luther King becomes the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1964 for his non-violent struggle against racial segregation and peace. He then begins a campaign against the Vietnam War and Poverty, which ends in 1968 with his assassination officially attributed to James Earl Ray, whose guilt and involvement in a plot are still debated.
He is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1977, the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1978, the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004, and is considered one of the most of the greatest American speakers1. Since 1986, the Martin Luther King Day is a holiday in the United States.
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