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Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta, GeorgiaMartin Luther King Jr was assassinated
Some people believe James Earl Ray Assassinated King
Others believe that J. Edgar Hoover used his longtime assistant
Clyde Tolson, to deliver cash to members of the Memphis underworld
that those shadowy figures then hired a sharpshooting Memphis police officer
and that officer — not Ray — fired the fatal shotHe graduated high school at age 15, enters Morehouse College shortly thereafter.Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States
in the 1950s and '60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement.He said he very famous "I have a dream" speech Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by
American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United StatesHe organized the first major protest of the African-American
civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus BoycottHe became the predominant leader in the Civil Rights Movement to end racial
segregation and discrimination in America during the 1950s and 1960s and a leading
spokesperson for nonviolent methods of achieving social change.
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