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Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta,Georgia. He was the second of three children,born to a Baptist Preacher. He was born in a period of segregation in the US even after slavery was abolished. He attended a segregated school where he skipped two grades and graduate at the age of fifteen.

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After he graduated,he went to Morehouse college where he got a degree in sociology. He decided he wanted to become a minister like his father so he enrolled in a Seminery to study religion.

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Martin Luther King Jr. graduated from the seminary at the top of his class.

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King married Coretta Scott with whom he would have four children. He continued his education by studying for his doctorate at Boston Collage.

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He became the pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery,Alabama. In 1955,he received his Ph.D when he was only twenty-five years old. In December of 1955,Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and she was arrested. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders organized a boycott of the bus system.

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The Supreme Court ruled that segregated busses were unconstitutional. This was a major victory for the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King was recognized nationally and jailed over twenty times but he never stopped calling for equality.

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King worked tirelessly to promote civil rights. He travelled all over,giving thousands of speeches,writing five books and many articles. His hard work earned hima metting with the President John F. Kennedy

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He gave his famous "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial to a listening crowd of two hundred and sixty thousand people. He was named Time magazine's man of the year.

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He recieved the Nobel Peace prize. Around the sime time,because of him,Congress passed a Civil Rights act which made segregation and discrimination based on nationality,sex,race,colour illegal.

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King gave his final speech. The next day,he was standing on his hotel balcony and he was shot and killed. He died at thirty six years old.