1 Dr. King was later named Time magazine’s “Man of the Year.”. 2  In 1964, at 35 years old, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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He and Martin Luther King Jr. also became known nationally because of their leadership of the successful Montgomery bus boycott. Check out this short biography of Abernathy then click on the tour buttons at the top to explore other important figures and events of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. As the leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. traversed the country in his quest for freedom. His involvement in the movement began during the bus boycotts of 1955 and was ended by an assassin's bullet in 1968.
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King, Abernathy, Boycott, and the SCLC. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts throughout the South. In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing.
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5. 6. During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced.
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RFK on MLK. The day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy was campaigning for the presidency in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kennedy made this speech in remembrance of Dr. King's tireless efforts.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his crusade for civil rights in the United States. Read the full text of the presentation speech given by chairman of the Nobel Committee, Gunnar Jahns, then follow the link for a biography of King. Report broken link.
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Founded in 1957 after the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLS) was a powerful player in the Civil Rights Movement of the '50s and '60s. Led by Martin Luther King Jr. and later by Ralph Abernathy, the SCLC was the backbone of the protest movement.
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1 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s less than thirteen years of nonviolent leadership ended abruptly and tragically on April 4th, 1968, when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect.
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