History of Martin Luther King
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January 15, 1929 is an important day in history. It was the day when the world was blessed by Martin Luther King. His mother was a schoolteacher, and he imbibed the habit of reading books and learning how to write from her. Whereas, Martin's father was a minister. As a student, he excelled in his class and even skipped his ninth and tenth grade to enroll into Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of fifteen.
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After finishing college, he got married to Coretta Scott in 1953. They had four children together. Then in 1954, he ended becoming a pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. He was merely twenty-five years old. Martin Luther was influenced by Gandhi’s non-violent philosophy and brought his principles into his Civil Rights Movement. During the 1950s, he actively took part in the Civil Rights Movement fighting for racial equality. There were many non-violent demonstrations that he attended, and the most significant of which was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, where protests were made against unfair treatment meted out to the black citizens.
The most important event was the establishment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), along with other civil rights activists in the year 1957. This group brought together black churches from across the country to lead non-violent protests for Civil Right reform. He led this group till his untimely death on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee where he was assassinated. He was shot at the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. The bullet smashed his jaw, ruptured his spinal chord and lodged in his shoulder. In spite of the attempt to save his life, Martin Luther King died, primarily because the condition of his heart was so weak as a result of stress.
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