Talk:Martin Luther King Jr./Facts

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 * Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "King, Martin Luther, Jr."
 * born 1929-01-15
 * Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights (1992, p.302)
 * died 1968-04-04
 * Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights (1992, p.302)
 * was a Baptist minister
 * Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights (1992, p.302)
 * (Lischer 1997, p. 28)
 * was an American political activist
 * "his shift away from classical civil rights issues to social justice causes involving all the nation's poor" (McKnight 1998, p. 4)
 * "his emphasis shifted away from the struggles of blacks for civil rights and toward ending poverty in America and protesting the war in Vietnam." (Wolfson 2003)
 * was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement
 * "the nation's preeminent civil rights leader." Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights (1992, p.302)
 * awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
 * Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights (1992, p.302)
 * The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "King, Martin Luther, Jr."
 * (Sherby 2002, p. 184)
 * was assassinated in 1968
 * Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights (1992, p.302)
 * was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 by Jimmy Carter
 * (Bostdorff 2005) citing the Wolfson article does not mention Carter or the Medal
 * promoted non-violence
 * "philosophy of nonviolent resistance" The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "King, Martin Luther, Jr."
 * promoted racial equality
 * (Wolfson 2003)
 * considered a peacemaker and martyr by many around the world
 * Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor
 * The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "King, Martin Luther, Jr."
 * most influential and well-known speech is "I Have a Dream"
 * "His most famous set piece was I Have a Dream" (Lischer 1997, p. 9)

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 * birth certificate lists name as "Michael Luther King, Jr."
 * (Lischer 1997, p. 18)
 * B.A., Morehouse College, 1948
 * The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "King, Martin Luther, Jr."
 * "Morehouse College, GA, A.B., 1948" (Sherby 2002, p. 184)
 * in sociology
 * (Lischer 1997, footnote 33, p. 278)
 * mentored by Benjamin Mays
 * (Lischer 1997, p. 29)
 * (Lischer 1997, p. 148)
 * (Lischer 1997, p. 202)
 * Mays president of Morehouse College
 * Mays a civil rights leader
 * Bachelor of Divinity, Crozer Theological Seminary,Chester, Pennsylvania, 1951
 * The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "King, Martin Luther, Jr."
 * "Crozer Theological Seminary, PA, B.D." (Sherby 2002, p. 184)
 * "he graduated as valedictorian in 1951" (Wolfson 2003)
 * Ph.D., Boston University, 1955
 * The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "King, Martin Luther, Jr."
 * "Boston Univ., MA, Ph.D., 1955" (Sherby 2002, p. 184)
 * of systematic theology
 * (Wolfson 2003)
 * married Coretta Scott 1953-06-18
 * (Sherby 2002, p. 184)
 * father performed ceremony at family home in Marion, Alabama
 * daughter Yolanda Denise born 1955-11-17, Montgomery, Alabama(died of H.I.V 1978-3-17 Montgomery, Alabama)
 * son Martin Luther III born 1957-10-23, Montgomery, Alabama
 * son Dexter Scott born 1961-01-30, Atlanta, Georgia
 * daughter Bernice Albertine 1963-03-28, Atlanta, Georgia
 * all threeÁ children civil rights activists
 * opionions and issues differ
 * Coretta Scott King died 2006-01-30

Civil rights activism

 * became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 1953
 * "King arrived in Montgomery in 1954 to assume the pastorate" (Lischer 1997, p. 73)
 * at the age of 24
 * most distinquished black church in Montgomery, Alabama
 * (Lischer 1997, p. 73)
 * Rosa Parks arrested 1955-12-1
 * for refusing to comply with law requiring her to give up seat to a white man
 * Mongomery Bus Boycott soon followed
 * lasted 382 days
 * situation became tense
 * King's house was bombed
 * King arrested during boycott
 * Boycott ended with U.S. Supreme Court decision
 * outlawed racial segregation on intrastate buses and all public transport