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Martin Luther King Jr., born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929 and murdered on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, is an African American Baptist pastor, non-violent activist for the civil rights movement in the United States. United of black Americans, for peace and against poverty.

It organizes and directs actions such as the boycott of Montgomery buses to defend the right to vote, desegregation and the employment of ethnic minorities. He gave a famous speech on August 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the march for jobs and freedom: "I have a dream". He is supported by John Kennedy in the fight against racial segregation in the United States; most of these rights will be promoted by the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act under the chairmanship of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Martin Luther King became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1964 for his nonviolent struggle against racial segregation and for peace. He then began a campaign against the Vietnam War and poverty, which ended in 1968 with his assassination officially attributed to James Earl Ray, whose guilt and participation in a plot are still debated.

He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1977, the United Nations Human Rights Prize in 1978, the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004, and is considered to be one of the greatest American speakers1. Since 1986, Martin Luther King Day has been a statutory holiday in the United States.

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