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Today is a national holiday in the United States called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This holiday, which falls every year on the third Monday of January, celebrates the life of a Baptist preacher, Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968).
Martin was an African American minister and the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 to his death in 1968. He was best known as an advocate of advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience. Much of his inspiration came not only from his Christian beliefs, but also through the nonviolence example of Mahatma Gandhi of India. At the time when Martin lived, the American civil rights movement focused almost exclusively on racial issues.
Rev. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, and later he became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Of all his speeches and writings, he is best known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, where he envisioned a day when people of all skin colors would be treated as equal in the United States of America.
Martin received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the most visible of all his honors.
Martin was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Today, he is honored throughout the world as a martyr by all who believe that every human is a child of God and should, therefore, be treated with respect and dignity.
