Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He graduated from high school at the age of
fifteen
; he received the B.A. degree in 1948 from
Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution
of Atlanta.
In Boston, he met and married Coretta Scott. They had two daughters and two sons.
He was a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race and led several movements, including
the bus boycott, which lasted 382 days. During these days of boycott, Martin Luther King was arrested,
his home was bombed, but at the same time, he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.
King is perhaps most famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech, given during the 1963 march of
250,000 people, for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington, D.C.
At the age of thirty-five, he was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for leading non-
violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States. He gave the prize money of $54,123 to
the civil rights movement. He was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time
magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
On April 4, 1968, while on the balcony of a hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was going
to lead a protest march with the garbage workers of that city, Luther King was assassinated.

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