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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became known for being such a strong spokesperson for civil rights from 1955-1968.

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Throughout Martin Luther King Jr's life, he experienced firsthand growing up the civil rights issues that he later became an activist for. Becoming a hero for his community and the country as a whole, woke the nation up that divided everyone. With his assassination in 1968, his work is still remarkable and carried on into topics today that are still being addressed.

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Rosa Parks for example was an activist who directly refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, also known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Highlighting and showing others struggling with this civil rights issue can be addressed.

Another activist, Malcolm X was a Muslim Minister and human rights activist that was a spokesperson around the same time as Martin Luther King Jr. who also spoke on the civil rights issues and the black community.

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Civil rights is still an issue today for the reason that there is still people in America, let alone the world that still create racial issues, civil right issues, etc.

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I believe anyone is subject to the civil rights issues and more accurately, African Americans, Immigrants, etc. This is because these people who are equal to anyone else on this planet, deal with "fitting in" or just being who they want to be. It can be an everyday struggle as finding yourself can become challenging when there is people who make these issues arise for no reason.

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The controversy that people still deal with today is racial issues in certain areas of the US that should not be issues still. Or even LGBTQ work environments, human trafficking, police brutality, etc. Such issues that are still predominant that have been address by Martin Luther King Jr. that are direct civil rights issues.

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Martin Luther King Jr. and his civil rights movement correlates relatively well with People and Place because if you feel disconnected within your community because your civil rights aren't being respected, then you would feel out of place. Just like any citizen regardless of race, gender, where you were born, but more importantly immigrants and African Americans.

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Some other historical figures that fought for these civil rights included, Rose Parks, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, etc. All of whom had very similar principles on addressing civil rights.

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I chose this topic because you can branch off of many ideas and issues that are still relevant today that can create a great thorough discussion.

Civil rights have always been a huge topic of discussion more importantly in the 1950's and 1960's where it started to be addressed properly.

Martin Luther King Jr. brought to light lots of issues in our country not only then, but opened up the opportunities for these issues to be corrected over the years, carrying on into todays issues.

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Throughout this module we were informed about the people and place issues that appeared in history. I chose the civil rights movements/activists because it goes hand in hand well with people and place.

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/biographical/

https://people.howstuffworks.com/6-civil-rights-struggles-going-right-now.htm

https://www.biography.com/people/groups/civil-rights-activists

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Malcolm-X

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Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Selected bibliography
Adams, Russell, Great Negroes Past and Present, pp. 106-107. Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing Co., 1963.

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, 1964.

I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King in Text and Pictures. New York, Time Life Books, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Measure of a Man. Philadelphia. The Christian Education Press, 1959. Two devotional addresses.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Strength to Love. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Sixteen sermons and one essay entitled "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence."

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York, Harper, 1958.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience. New York, Harper & Row, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Harper & Row, 1967.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Why We Can't Wait. New York, Harper & Row, 1963.

"Man of the Year", Time, 83 (January 3, 1964) 13-16; 25-27.

"Martin Luther King, Jr.", in Current Biography Yearbook 1965, ed. by Charles Moritz, pp. 220-223. New York, H.W. Wilson.

Reddick, Lawrence D., Crusader without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper, 1959.

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished inNobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

* Note from Nobelprize.org: This biography uses the word "Negro". Even though this word today is considered inappropriate, the biography is published in its original version in view of keeping it as a historical document.

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The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population"