I Have A Dream-Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968)
was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin.
Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia,
completed the B. A. in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta.
His Father & Grandfather also completed their graduation from this institute.
Three years - Theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania 
With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955.

In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments.
Two sons and two daughters were born into the family


In 1954,

Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

King was always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race,

He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

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 eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action;

He wrote five books as well as numerous articles.

He led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience.

and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution;

he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters;

he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream"-

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

He conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times;
he was awarded five honorary degrees;
was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; 

At the age of 35 years, he was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. He announced that he would turn 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, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.