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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Martin Luther King, Jr.
		King was born in Atlanta, Georgia to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
		King and the SCLC were instrumental in the unsuccessful protest movement in Albany, in 1961–1962, where divisions within the black community and the canny, low-key response by local government defeated efforts; in the Birmingham protests in the summer of 1963; and in the protest in St.
		King was an adherent of the philosophies of nonviolent civil disobedience used successfully in India by Mohandas Gandhi, and he applied this philosophy to the protests organized by the SCLC.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. (3289 words)

	MSN Encarta - Martin Luther King
		Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the eldest son of Martin Luther King, Sr., a Baptist minister, and Alberta Williams King.
		King, Jr., was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18.
		King was soon chosen as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the organization that directed the bus boycott.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557424/King_Martin_Luther_Jr.html (1099 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
		Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
		King was selected as one of the inaugural honorees for the Extra Mile Points of Light Volunteer Pathway, a monument in Washington, D.C., that celebrates the efforts of national volunteer leaders.
		King and the SCLC embarked upon their first nonviolent direct-action campaign in 1961 in Albany, at the invitation of local blacks.
	www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1009 (2308 words)

	A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		United States Department of Justice investigation of recent allegations regarding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		King was ordained as a Baptist minister and received his B.A. degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in June at the age of 19.
		King marched on the issue for open housing in Chicago and was stoned by an angry crowd on August 6, 1966.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm (5709 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King was born in Atlanta, Georgia to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
		King and the SCLC were instrumental in the unsuccessful protest movement in Albany, in 1961–1962, where divisions within the black community and the canny, low-key response by local government defeated efforts; in the Birmingham protests in the summer of 1963; and in the protest in St.
		King was an adherent of the philosophies of nonviolent civil disobedience used successfully in India by Mahatma Gandhi, and he applied this philosophy to the protests organized by the SCLC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. (4270 words)

	The King Center - Remember! Celebrate! Act! - King Holiday Information
		Yet, Dr. King knew that it wasn’t enough just to talk the talk, that he had to walk the walk for his words to be credible.
		The King Holiday honors the life and contributions of America’s greatest champion of racial justice and equality, the leader who not only dreamed of a color-blind society, but who also lead a movement that achieved historic reforms to help make it a reality.
		On this day we commemorate Dr. King’s great dream of a vibrant, multiracial nation united in justice, peace and reconciliation; a nation that has a place at the table for children of every race and room at the inn for every needy child.
	thekingcenter.com /holiday/index.asp (1005 words)

	Martin Luther King
		Martin Luther King also agreed to help and it was announced he would speak at a public meeting in Memphis on 18 th March.
		Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on 15th January, 1929.
		King was also influenced by Henry David Thoreau and his theories on how to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social change.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAkingML.htm (8412 words)

	TIME 100: Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Three decades after King was gunned down on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tenn., he is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality.
		Before King and his movement, a tired and thoroughly respectable Negro seamstress like Rosa Parks could be thrown into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus so a white man could sit down.
		It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief.
	www.time.com /time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html (589 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the Net - The Story of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		King believed that the United States involvement in Vietnam was also a factor and that the war poisoned the atmosphere of the whole country and made the solution of local problems of human relations unrealistic
		King and the SCLC organized drives for African-American voter registration, desegregation, and better education and housing throughout the South.
		King was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as someone who "had contributed the most to the furtherance of peace among men." Dr. King would divide the prize money, $54,000, among various civil rights organizations
	www.holidays.net /mlk/story.htm (1466 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. - EnchantedLearning.com
		A fill-in-the-blanks quiz on Martin Luther King Jr.
		Find the words in the Martin Luther King, Jr., wordsearch puzzle, then use the extra letters to find the secret message: "Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia." Or go to the answers.
		Martin Luther King, Jr., was a great man who worked for racial equality and civil rights in the United States of America.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /history/us/MLK (682 words)

	Education World ® - Lesson Planning: Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King!
		Martin Luther King's "I have a dream..." speech is one of the most famous and often quoted speeches of all time.
		Martin Luther King is ordained as a Baptist minister.
		Martin Luther King's dream was to see people of all countries, races, and religions living together in harmony.
	www.education-world.com /a_lesson/lesson046.shtml (2090 words)

	Martin Luther King Jr. Home Page
		In 1970, she established the Martin Luther King Jr.
		Martin Luther King's death did not slow the Civil Rights Movement.
		Congressmen and citizens had petitioned the President to make Jan. 15, Martin Luther King's birthday, a federal legal holiday.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/mlk2002 (319 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr., Biography
		Martin Luther King, Jr., prepares to speak to a crowd of 200,000 marchers in Washingtion, DC.
		The son of the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, King was ordained in 1947 and became (1954) minister of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Ala.
		King's leadership in the civil-rights movement was challenged in the mid-1960s as others grew more militant.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/mlkbiospot.html (540 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil-Rights Leader
		King was an eloquent Baptist minister and leader of the civil-rights movement in America from the Mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
		King was turning his attention to a nationwide campaign to help the poor at the time of his assassination.
		King promoted non-violent means to achieve civil-rights reform and was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96jan/king.html (826 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Martin Luther King, Jr.
		King was in Atlanta when five bombs went off at parsonages and churches in Montgomery in the early morning of January 10, 1957.
		King studied in the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade, skipping a grade.
		Edgar Hoover was determined to discredit King; in November of 1964 the FBI sent King a tape of one of his encounters with another woman, along with a note recommending suicide.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/king_m.htm (3993 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King as a living memorial dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr., the King Center provides a wide range of resources including King related news, historical information, and more.
		King Timeline Page, Timeline of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Explore secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life.
	www.42explore2.com /king.htm (943 words)

	American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "I Have a Dream"
		Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Intellectual Properties Management
		Quotation marks are excluded from part of this moment in the text because King's rendering of Isaiah 40:4 does not precisely follow the KJV version from which he quotes (e.g., "hill" and "mountain" are reversed in the KJV).
		King's rendering of Isaiah 40:5, however, is precisely quoted from the KJV.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/Ihaveadream.htm (1709 words)

	MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
		MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR As far as black Americans were concerned, the nation's response to Brown was agonizingly slow, and neither state legislatures nor the Congress seemed willing to help their cause along.
		For further reading: Herbert Garfinkel, When Negroes March: The March on Washington...(1969); Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (1988); Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
		Tell them about the dream!" Encouraged by shouts from the audience, King drew upon some of his past talks, and the result became the landmark statement of civil rights in America -- a dream of all people, of all races and colors and backgrounds, sharing in an America marked by freedom and democracy.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/38.htm (1984 words)

	Real History Archives Martin Luther King Assassination (alleged assassin: James Earl Ray)
		I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King's famous and compelling speech, given August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
		A small-time thief named James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King from the bathroom of the flophouse across from where King was staying.
		Murder in Memphis: the FBI and the Assassination of Martin Luther King
	www.webcom.com /~lpease/collections/assassinations/mlk.htm (517 words)

	Dr. Martin Luther King
		Words to the speech by Dr. King on April 4, 1967 at the Riverside Church in NY City, in which he outlines his clear opposition to the Vietnam War.
		This is a homage to Dr. King by the union of Memphis garbage workers whose strike Dr. King was supporting when he was assissinated.
		King left us a clear critique of the American social and economic system, one which explains the problems we face today.
	dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us /king.html (765 words)

	The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Overview
		The events surrounding Martin Luther King's death remain controversial to this day, nearly 30 years after the fact.
		This ParaScope special report investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding King's death, examining a bewildering and contradictory tapestry of unsettling evidence.
		But perhaps more controversial than the facts of the case itself is the apparent lack of continued public outrage over the loose investigation and conflicting evidence regarding the shooting.
	www.parascope.com /mx/luther1.htm (158 words)

	Black History
		King was only 39 at the time of his death—a leader in midpassage who never wavered in his insistence that nonviolence must remain the essential tactic of the movement nor in his faith that all Americans would some day attain racial and economic justice.
		King's plans for a Poor People's March to Washington were interrupted in the spring of 1968 by a trip to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of a strike by that city's sanitation workers.
		King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers.
	search.eb.com /Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=45504 (3217 words)

	Recent Past Preservation Network
		The MLK Library has stood as the only monument to Dr. King in the nation's capital for the past 30 years.
		The library was designed with a flexible interior plan and with the ability to add a fifth story in order to ensure the building could continue to be used as a central library facility for 150 years.
		It holds special significance to the millions of Washingtonians who have come to the library over the past decades to participate in a wide variety of programs and activities, and is a center of community life in the District.
	www.recentpast.org /types/library/mlklib (576 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr: Bound to Love
		Martin Luther King had a profound understanding of the intrinsic value of the relationship between justice and peace and knew that there could not be an equitable settlement as long as injustice and inequality prevailed, he worked and gave his life trying to realise this dream.
		Martin Luther King was criticised by a group of white clergymen who blamed him for precipitating the violence, he penned a subdued, but passionate letter of reply to his colleagues, smuggling it out on toilet tissue, the margins of newspapers, indeed any scrap of paper available to him.
		Martin Luther King was able to change the terms of debate in America and won overwhelming support not only throughout his nation, but throughout the world as he marched upon the road for social justice and impartiality, reaffirming the dream that all people are created equal.
	www.sol.com.au /kor/15_01.htm (6193 words)

	A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Martin Luther King III was born on October 23, 1957.
		Martin luther King's grave at The King Center
		King was ordained as a Baptist minister and received his B.A. degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in June at the age of 19.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm (5709 words)

	ipedia.com: Martin Luther King, Jr. Article
		King and the SCLC were instrumental in the unsuccessful protest movement in Albany in 1961-2, where splits within the black community and the canny, low-key response by local government defeated the movement, in the Birmingham protests in the summer of 1963, and in the protest in St.
		King was an adherent of the philosophies of nonviolent civil disobedience used successfully in India by Mohandas Gandhi, and he applied this philosophy to the protests organised by the SCLC.
		King was assassinated before the march on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, while preparing to lead a local march in support of the heavily-black Memphis sanitation workers' union.
	www.ipedia.com /martin_luther_king__jr_.html (1571 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch
		Martin Luther King, Jr., was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King.
		The area where Dr. King was entombed is located on Freedom Plaza and surrounded by the Freedom Hall Complex of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Martin Luther King entered the Christian ministry and was ordained in February 1948 at the age of nineteen at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia.
	www.lib.lsu.edu /hum/mlk/srs218.html (1226 words)

	Martin Luther King - Biography
		At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
		In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
		Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had been graduated.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html (738 words)

	A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		United States Department of Justice investigation of recent allegations regarding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Dr. King was the catalyst for the removal of this loathsome status.
		King was ordained as a Baptist minister and received his B.A. degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in June at the age of 19.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm (5709 words)

	Timeline of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Timeline of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		We used Kid Pix to create a timeline of the important events of his life.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/taverna/98/king.htm (35 words)

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