Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Born: 1929 Atlanta, GA
Assassinated: April 4, 1968
American Baptist minister & activist leader of the Civil Rights Movement, he’s best known for nonviolent civil disobedience based on Christian values but arrested & jailed 29 times.
Birth name was Michael, not Martin.
Won Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom & Congressional Gold Medal.
His 17-min. “I Have a Dream” speech Aug. 28, 1963, calling to end racism in front of 250,000+ people in Wash, DC is regarded as one of the best speeches in American history.
Said: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”