In memory of
Martin Luther King Jr.
Minister and leader of the civil rights movement
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 39 years
- Resting place
- The King Center, Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
A Baptist minister from Atlanta, King led the Montgomery bus boycott, the march on Washington and the Selma campaign, insisting throughout on non-violence. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, at thirty-five the youngest laureate at the time.
He was assassinated on a motel balcony in Memphis while supporting striking sanitation workers. He and his wife Coretta lie in a marble crypt beside a reflecting pool, a few steps from the house where he was born.
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