Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation and injustice.

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instanceOf American activist
Baptist minister
civil rights leader
human
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Divinity
PhD in systematic theology
advocated desegregation
economic justice
voting rights for African Americans
awardReceived Congressional Gold Medal
Nobel Peace Prize
Presidential Medal of Freedom
birthName Martin Luther King Jr. self-linksurface differs
surface form: Michael King Jr.
causeOfDeath assassination
gunshot wound
child Bernice King
Dexter Scott King
Martin Luther King III
Yolanda King
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1929-01-15
dateOfDeath 1968-04-04
denomination Baptist
educatedAt Boston University
Crozer Theological Seminary
Morehouse College
familyName King
father Martin Luther King Sr.
fieldOfWork civil rights
racial equality
social justice
founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference
fullName Martin Luther King Jr. self-link
gender male
givenName Martin
hasHonor Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday in the United States
ideology civil disobedience
nonviolence
influencedBy Henry David Thoreau
Jesus Christ
Mahatma Gandhi
knownFor advocacy of nonviolent resistance
leadership in the American civil rights movement
opposition to racial injustice
opposition to racial segregation
marriageStart 1953
memorial Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.
mother Alberta Williams King
movement American civil rights movement
NobelPeacePrizeYear 1964
notableWork "I Have a Dream" speech
Letter from Birmingham Jail
numberOfChildren 4
occupation civil rights activist
clergyman
minister
opposed Vietnam War
participatedIn Birmingham campaign
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Montgomery bus boycott
Selma to Montgomery marches
placeOfBirth Atlanta
surface form: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
placeOfDeath Memphis, Tennessee, United States
positionHeld co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church
pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
religion Christianity
residence Atlanta
surface form: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
spouse Coretta Scott King

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