BIRTH OF A KING

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on this day in 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia as Michael King Jr.  He and his father Michael King Sr. adopted the name Martin Luther, after the religious figure who founded the Lutheran denomination.

King was a minister and civil rights leader. At the age of 26, he took up the leadership role that would fill the rest of his life. He furthered the stubborn determination of Black people to break down the barriers of a racist American society.

His strategy of non-violent protest brought the passage of legislation that changed America.

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

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