Martin Luther King

This was a black man considered one of the most important leaders of the movement of defence of the civil laws. Martin was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta. He went to
Morehouse College with only 15 years old and there he was formed like a baptista minister.
Graduating on the Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951 and then made a post-degree in the University of Boston.
Martin Luther King’s studies on Boston and Crozer permitted to him to know about Gandhi’s works and these ideas were the centre of his own philosophy knew like not violent protest. In 1954 Martin accepted to be the pastor of the Baptista church of Dexter Avenue in Montgomery (Alabama).
The importance of this man become when he fights against the unfair for the black people influence for Gandhi’s ideas. All began with the arrest of a black woman, who didn’t want to give her sit to a white person. Martin protested 381 days for this unfair being arrested then. His home was destroyed and he received threats of dead. But all this finishes well and King was considered a respectable human been for the black people and the black clergymen created a conference of Christian leaders of the south and Martin was the president.

King on 1963 directing a campaign for the Civil Laws in Birmingham (Alabama) to finished with the segregation and obtains a better education on the south states. Directed the historic march to Washington on August 28, 1963 and there he pronounced the famous speech ‘I have a dream' and in 1964 Martin received the new prize of the peace.
Finally Martin was murderer in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968 by a white Prisoner called James Earl Ray. Every third Monday of every January national holiday to remember him.