Labels:text | human face | man | clock OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ King, Martin Luther Martin Luther King The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ., was the leading figure of the black civil rights movement that swept the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s. His reform movement, based on nonviolent disobedience, resulted in the segregation laws of the South being declared unconstitutional, and to laws being passed to ensure equal voting rights for Blacks. King began his career as a Baptist minister in Montgomery, Alabama. It was there, in 1956, that a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to vacate a "whites only" seat on a city bus. Together with Ralph Abernathy, King organized a successful boycott of the city buses, and won national acclaim. In 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C ., he delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech to an audience of more than 250,000 Martin Luther King, Jr ., U.S. civil rights leader, King was awared the Nobel peace prize 1929-68 in 1964, yet his final years saw the rise of a militant black movement under the leadership of activists such as Malcolm X. In 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated while visiting Memphis, Tennessee. CHRONOLOGY
