Which US civil rights campaigner was assassinated in 1968?

Answer 1

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Michael Luther King was born January 15, 1929, to Alberta King, a schoolteacher, and Michael Luther King, a Baptist minister. Michael who was born in the heart of the south Atlanta, Georgia was later renamed Martin. In 1948 King graduates with a BA, from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and in 1951 with a BD, from Crozer theological seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. On June 18 1953 King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama. They will later have four children: Yolanda Denise, born in 1955, martin Luther King III, born in 1957, Dexter, born in 1961, and Bernice Albertine, born in 1963. In 1954 King moves to Montgomery, Alabama to preach at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. In 1956 King receives finishes his Ph.D. in systematic theology form New England colleges. A somewhat historic point in King's life takes place on January 26, 1956 when he is arrested for driving 30 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone. On the 30th of January his house is bombed. January 1957 black minister formed the SCLC, southern Christen Leadership Conference, a month later King is named its first president. This year King will travel 780,000 miles and make 208 speeches. 1958 King is stabbed, by and African American woman while promoting his book Stride toward Freedom, at a Harlem Bookstore. In 1959 King visits Mohandas Gandhi, in India. King's uses his passive resistance techniques for his civil-rights movement. In 1960 King leaves Atlanta to pastor his fathers church, Ebenezer Baptist Church. In 1962 King meets with President John F. Kennedy to urge him to support the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963 King is arrested after protesting in Birmingham, Alabama desegregating department store facilities, and fair hiring practices. In April of the same year he is arrested after demonstrating, which was in defiance of a court order. King will later write "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", which later becomes a civil rights classic. On August 28 of the same year King gives his historic "I have a Dream" speech at his March on Washington, which drew 250,000 supporters. In 1964 King's second book is published Why We Can't Wait and visits West Berlin mayor Willey Brant and Pope Paul VI. In December of this year King wins the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1965, James George Robinson assaults King after he successfully registering to vote at the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama. In February King is arrested and jailed after protesting discrimination in voter registration. On the 9th February King meets with President Lyndon B. Johnson and other American leaders about voting rights of African Americans. From March 16-21 King and 3,200 people march from Selma to Montgomery. Then on April 4th 1968 King is assassinated on the second floor of his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray. January 20 1986 is the first celebration of King's birthday as a holiday.

Answer 2

Martin Luther King Jr on April 4.

Answer 3

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.