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King was the leader of the nonviolent civil rights struggle. A minister from a family of ministers, he became a public figure while still in his twenties when he led a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Frequently threatened or arrested, he was the main organizer of sit-ins and marches in segregated southern towns and cities, particularly in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. That summer he addressed a huge audience of civil rights workers who had marched in protest in Washington, D. C. His speech, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, is one of the most famous of the century. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the youngest person ever to do so. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. Web Destinations | "I Have a Dream" (1963) |
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