Martin+Luther+King+Jr

He became the actual civil rights movement leader, but it wasn't just that he was a popular fellow because he was, but because he got the part of leadership because the way he led. He was always helping out everyone he had no selfishness, he had no grief for his race, but he had the right and the power to show his people that he had a dream. When he first heard about one of his sisters getting treated poorly, Rosa Parks, he launched an immediate boycott of the Montgomery buses. More than 17,000 blakc residents of Montgomery pulled together and kept the boycott running for more than a year. Another extrodinary thing King did was he advocated civil disobedience. Civil rights activists organized demonstrations, marches, boycotts, strikes, and voter-registration drives, and refused to obey laws that they knew were wrong and unjust. King emphasized how important it was that the civil rights movement did not sink to the level of the racists and hate mongers they fought against. He recieved the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions at the age of 35. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

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