Martin Luther King, Jr. And The African-American Civil Rights Movement

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. worked for civil rights movements, supported equality for African-American, supported poverty and wanted to end any racial discrimination. The speech on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, influenced many of the Americans in the United States and began to think differently about race.

Born as Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in his maternal grandparent’s large Victorian house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael’s name was later changed to Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Martin

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