Martin Luther King Jr.: A Champion of Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African-American church leader and the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He led targeted, nonviolent resistance against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination in the United States. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951. He then received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University in 1955. In 1954, King became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. The following year, he became involved in the Montgomery bus boycott, which was sp...
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