The young pastor Martin Luther King, at the Lincoln Memorial gathered more than 250,000 followers of the African-American community, where he gave the most famous of his splendid speeches, I have a dream. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:" We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal "Martin Luther King Jr., I have a dream, 1963. These wonderful words were spoken by a man who inspired a nonviolence such as Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Luther King Jr never left his relentless pursuit of equal civil rights for African-Americans.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in the city of Atlanta Georgia where he grew up in a Baptist household where his father was a minister. He studied theology at the University of Pennsylvania. Also, he obtained a doctorate at Boston University in Systematic Theology. Then, he became pastor of a Baptist church in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. Young Martin Luther King became aware of the situation of social and racial discrimination African Americans living in his country and, he decided the struggle for equal social a civil rights.
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He became a leader and his fame spread rapidly throughout the country. He assumed the leadership of the United States peace movement where achieving major improvements for people of color in their lives which were; equal access to libraries, cafeterias and parking lots. Martin Luther King became the most prestigious of the American civil rights movement leader, for these reasons he awarded Nobel Peace Prize in