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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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January 15, 1929 — April 4, 1968
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger that evil triumphant.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr. attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduated from high school at the age of 15 and received a B.A. degree from Morehouse College. During his three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class. He received his doctorate degree in 1955 from Boston University. In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorate of the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1957, he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over 6 million miles and spoke over 2500 times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest and action. He directed the peaceful march in Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “I Have a Dream.” At the age of thirty-five, he was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. He turned over the prize money to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, TN, where he was to lead a march in sympathy with striking garbage workers, he was assassinated. |
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