he was a civil rights leader who ultimately paid for his convictions with his life biography presents Martin Luther King jr. King was born in Atlanta On January 15 1929 the son of a Baptist minister he too entered the seminary King met Coretta Scott while earning his doctorate they married and had four children preaching nonviolent protest King stood up to injustice and led the Montgomery bus boycott his role in the civil rights movement grew with the 1963 march on Washington there King delivered his famous I have a dream speech which propelled the civil rights and voting
rights Acts tragically James Earl Ray assassinated King at a Memphis hotel in April 1968 fifty years after his death biography honors the life and legacy of dr. Martin Luther King jr. you
