Baptist Minister & Civil Rights Leader · American · b. January 15, 1929 · d. April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other basic civil rights. King led the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
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