89. GOAL.
 Martin Luther King Jr. goes down in history as one of
the leader of the civil rights movement in the United
States and a leader of nonviolent protest. King's
commitment to segregation and racist discriminations
was his motivation. To stop the separation between the
blacks, and the whites. And fight for the civil rights of
the United States.

90. BIOGRAPHY
 King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was ordained
as a Baptist minister at age 18. He graduated from
Morehouse College in 1948 and from Crozer
Theological Seminary in 1951. In 1955 he earned a
doctoral degree in systematic theology from Boston
University. While in Boston, King met Coretta
Scott, who he married in 1953.

91.  King and other black leaders organized the 1963
March on Washington, a massive protest in
Washington, D.C., for jobs and civil rights. King
delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to an
audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters.
The speech and the march created the political
momentum that resulted in the Civil Rights Act of
1964, which prohibited segregation in public
accommodations and discrimination in education and
employment. As a result of King's effective leadership,
he was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace.

92.  Throughout 1966 and 1967 King increasingly turned
the focus of his activism to the redistribution of the
nation's economic wealth to overcome entrenched
black poverty. In the spring of 1968 he went to
Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking black
garbage workers. King was assassinated in Memphis
on April 4, 1968.

93. Achievements.
 -African American clergyman; ordained as a Baptist
minister at 18.
-Became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize for his work to end racial segregation, and racial
discrimination using non-violent methods in 1964.
-Among Principal leaders of the Civil rights Movement.
-Advocate for direct action nonviolent protest.
-King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial
justice.
Husband to Coretta Scott-King; together they were parents
to daughters: Yolanda and Bernice. And sons: Martin III
and Dexter.

94.  -Refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing
the Vietnam War from a religious perspective.
-Assassinated on April 4, 1968, in
Memphis, Tennessee.
-Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977;
and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a
U.S. national holiday in 1986.
-Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.

95. Leadership traits.
 Martin Luther King was an amazing public speaker, he
spoke his historical speech “I have a dream” in front of
300,000 other black protestors and freedom speakers.
 He fought for good, and only for good, he was giving his
way, for the freedom of all the colored people in the United
States, and for the civil rights of the United States.
 Back then, the colored people were treated extremely bad,
separate water fountains for drinking, slavery, segregations,
separation of blacks and white, unfair advantages for white
people, and sometimes verbal and physical assault. Martin
Luther king, and a few other freedom speakers such as Rosa
Parks helped free the United States from racial segregation.