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Each year on the third Monday of January, America honours the birth, life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a day for all Americans to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought.
Dr. King was an American clergyman and civil-rights leader. In 1954, He became minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
He come to prominence after leading the boycott of segregated city bus lines in 1956; gaining a key victory as a civil-rights leader when Montgomery buses began to operate on a desegregated basis.
King organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which provided a platform to pursue further civil-rights activities, in the South and later on, nationwide.
His philosophy of nonviolent resistance resulted in his arrest many times during the fifties and sixties. I was his 1963 protest in Birmingham, Alabama that earned him worldwide attention.
He brought together over 200,000 people for the March on Washington in August 1963, where he delivered the iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.
In 1964, aged 35, he become the youngest man and only the third black man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
His social interests widened from civil rights to include criticism of the Vietnam War and a growing concern about poverty. He was planning a Poor People's March to Washington in 1968, when he interrupted the preparations to go to support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
On April 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
Following his assassination, Mrs. Coretta Scott King devoted her energy and attention to developing programs and building the Atlanta-based Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change as a living memorial to her husband's life and dream. Mrs. Coretta Scott King died in January 2006.
The King Center is the first institution built to commemorate an African American leader and has over one million visitors each year.
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