Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15,1929. He was a black clergyman, who devoted himself completely to the struggle for equal rights for the black people and an end to segregation in the South of the United States. In 1955, he organized a black boycott of the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. The black people there had decided that they would no longer ride in segregated buses. Led by King, they appealed to the courts for support of their effort. The boycott against segregation lasted 381 days, and ended in victory the next year.
In the spring of 1963, he began to organize a march to Washington to persuade the U.S. government to back a mass Civil Rights Movement for black people. On August 28 that year, some 250 OO0 Americans of all races and faiths joined him and other civil rights leaders in an unprecedented demonstration of solidarity. From all over the country, citizens came to "march on Washington" in support of civil rights legislation. It was then that King delivered the most impressive speech of his career. Many of those present wept, deeply moved by these words that will forever be remembered by all freedom-loving people.
In 1964, at the age of only 35, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But only four years later, on April 4, 1968, the day before another mass demonstration, he was shot and killed by an assassin.
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