Martin Luther King Jr. was an
American activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the
American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through
nonviolence and
civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the
nonviolent activism of
Mahatma Gandhi. King participated in and led marches for blacks' right to
vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other basic civil rights. As
president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped
organize some of the
nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King helped
organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered
… Read more his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
The SCLC put into practice the tactics of
nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent. On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel
Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through
nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped
organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards
poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam
War.
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with
government agents persisted for decades after the shooting.
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unionists,
anarchist philosophers, and
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Mahatma Gandhi,
George Orwell,
Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X, and many other famous writers,
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