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In this video, learn about the life of the civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr.

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He was a powerful orator, that charismatic leader and one of the greatest Americans of all time. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. let a revolution in 190s and 1960s that ended the racial segregation and push Civil Rights to the profound of the political agenda. King exiled academically, graduate with a BSD Theology. He was only 24 when became pastor at the back this church in Alabama and quickly gained the reputation of authority as for being an agitated. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Well the jail experience is never an easy experience. King lucrative comments says that either of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, the response Rosa Parks arrest for refusing to give up the seat to a white man as requires under the Jim Crow Law. King was arrested that his house fires a bombed during the campaign but had led to the United States Supreme Court Decision that the segregation laws were unconstitutional. King found himself tapping into a powerful move of protest and change. Feelings run strongly within the African-American community and he opposed violence and through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference makes churches before—struggled for racial equality. King’s success as an immediate for social change was viewed with suspicion by the FBI. They put him under surveillance and then attempt to gather evidence that communist were infiltrate in the Civil Rights movement. No such evidence was forth coming that the agency attempt to the blackmail King and to abandon in this public road. A quarter of a million Americans from many different rational bankrupt as much common nations capital to demand an end to ratio segregation, legislation, to ensure rational equality and protection for Civil Rights worker on police brutality. It was at this demonstration that he would give his historic speech “I have a dream.” Martin Luther King, Jr.: One day right there in Alabama, little black boy and black girl would be able to join hand with white boy and white girl as sisters and brother, I have a dream to be. The following year King became the youngest ever recipient of the novelties price and at the years of a world when he delivered his acceptance speech. Martin Luther King, Jr.: I was ask why this price is awarded to a movement which is bigger than committed to unrelenting struggle. Throughout the 1960s King were to build bridges between Civil Rights groups and mobilized social protest. He took his family to live in Chicago’s slums to highlight the injustices face by Northern African-Americans. King also spoke out against the Vietnam war questioning why the United States Government was propping up the dictators of South East Asia. He met nation of Islam leader Malcolm X many times but refuse to renounce his policy of anti-violence. King’s politics made him the tagged of hateful arrange people that he constantly face the threats of violence but the civil rights leader refuse to become on the evening of April 4th 1968 he was standing on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee when an assassin fire several shots at it. Now later King was pronounced dead at the hospital and entire nation was plunge to the mourning. 3,000 people attended his funeral that many millions more and more demand who more than any other that brought lasting changes to the conditions and attitudes enjoyed by Black Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr.: As we know that is long as the Negro in this country as well as other section in the state can vote then many of the other conditions that exist will continue to exist.