Glossary
| King Jr., Martin Luther | | Born January 15, 1929, this ordained clergyman and Nobel Prize winner was one of the principal leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. King's advocacy of nonviolent protest to end legal segregation and racial discrimination was instrumental in forcing the federal government to confront the issues of injustice in the United States. Dr. King served as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, an organization responsible for the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. Additionally, he co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Dr. King's last speech was delivered April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee during a bitter sanitation workers' strike. He was assassinated the following evening. In 1986, Martin Luther King's birthday was officially declared a federal holiday.
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