He died when he was 39.
King was shot while standing on a balcony outside his second-ο¬oor room at the Lorraine Motel.
the law that separated the blacks from the whites
he helped pass the de segregration laws , duhhh
Because people were pissed that some white man had killed this legend. People were prepared for Martin Luther King Jr. to pass away but they all expected it peacefully in respect of how he was. I think they were shocked and didn't know what to do so they resorted to what seemed logical, hurting the whites as much as they whites hurt them.
He helped pass the Civil Rights Act and tried to stop discrimination of people.
Yes. The existence of Protestant Christians, and with it, Agnostic, Lutheran, United and soforth, owe their whole existances to Martin Luther. By rejecting the idea of religious Hierarchy and ignoring the near spiritual divinity of the Pope, Martin Luther forever changed the course of Christianity and everyday the Protestant movement exists, so do Martin Luther's influences.
No. It seems that none of the King children have never been married, nor do they have any children. It is rather sad though. With all the respect and inflluence granted to the family, through the late great, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the legacy will stop when they pass on. However, Martin Luther King III and his wife Andrea Waters King gave birth to a baby girl they named Yolanda Renee King in 2008.
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The two stones started as one and symbolize the "Mountain of Despair" as MLK mentions in his "I Have a Dream" speech. Visitors must pass through them to symbolically pass through the struggles that MLK faced in his life.
December 25, 1989.
It made president Lyndon Johnson make congress pass a new and stronger legislation to ensure the voting rights of African Americans
Yes, Julius Streicher, a Nazi propagandist, made a reference to Martin Luther at the Nuremberg Trials in an attempt to defend his actions. Streicher claimed that he was only following Luther's anti-Semitic teachings when promoting hatred against Jews in Nazi Germany.