Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Ph.D., Boston University (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Nobel Laureate, Baptist minister, and African American civil rights activist. He is one of the most significant leaders in U.S. history and in the modern history of non-violence, and is considered a hero, peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world. A decade and a half after his 1968 assassination, Martin Luther King Day, a U.S. holiday, was established in his honor. He also was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

See also

• American Civil Rights Movement Timeline
• Bayard Rustin
• Civil rights movement
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Malcolm X
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Nonviolence
• Nonviolent resistance
• Race
• Racism
• Racial segregation
• A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman (King's doctoral dissertation)