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       A) His biography
   DIR By: TPE
       Date: January 19, 2016, 10:55 am
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       Martin Luther King Jr. was an African-American Baptist minister,
       nonviolent activist for black civil rights in the United States,
       for peace and against poverty, born in Atlanta (Georgia) January
       15, 1929 and died assassinated April 4, 1968 in Memphis
       (Tennessee).
       At 18, Martin Luther King decided to become pastor of the
       Baptist church, like his father. In 1948, he graduated from
       Morehouse College, black university from his native town, and
       engages in orders. Ordained Baptist minister in 1948, he
       graduated the same year. After three years at the seminary
       Crozer Chester (Pennsylvania), he joined Boston University in
       1951. His bourgeois origins protected him from poverty, but he
       very early experienced racial discrimination. He underwent two
       influences: that of the theologian Walter Rauschenbusch
       (1861-1918), whose works persuade the need to apply Christian
       principles to social problems and concern for minds as much as
       socio-economic conditions that affect them. All the King family
       is active in the black movement of the time; her father was the
       local leader of the National Association for the Advancement of
       Colored People (NAACP), then the only mass black activist
       organization; Coretta Scott, the wife of Martin Luther King,
       will become president of the NAACP after his death.
       He organized and directed actions such as the boycott of
       Montgomery Bus to defend the right to vote, desegregation and
       employment of ethnic minorities. He delivered a famous speech on
       Aug. 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington: "I
       have a dream". It is supported by John F. Kennedy in the fight
       against racial segregation in the United States; most of these
       rights are promoted by the "Civil Rights Act" and the "Voting
       Rights Act" under the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Martin
       Luther King became the youngest laureate of Nobel Peace Prize in
       1964 for his nonviolent struggle against racial segregation and
       for peace.
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