Search results
Jan 12, 2023 · January 12, 2023. • 9 min read. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is a civil rights legend. In the mid-1950s, King led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United ...
The wreath marks King's approximate location at the time of his assassination. Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., [1] and often referred to shorthand as MLK Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in federal ...
Jan 18, 2010 · Monday marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
For the full article, see Martin Luther King, Jr. . Martin Luther King, Jr., (born Jan. 15, 1929, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn.), U.S. civil rights leader. The son and grandson of Baptist preachers, King became an adherent of nonviolence while in college. Ordained a Baptist minister himself in 1954, he became pastor of ...
1223 quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.: 'Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.', 'I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.', and 'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.'.
Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 15. januar 1929 – 4. april 1968) var en amerikansk baptistpræst, som i årene 1956-68 var frontfigur i den amerikanske borgerrettighedsbevægelse. Med sin kristne baggrund, filosofien om civil ulydighed og inspireret af Gandhis ikkevolds-politik, stod King i spidsen for en række demonstrationer og aktioner, der ...
