Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 23 January 2004 — Page 25

The Muncie Times 'January 23, 2004 • Page 25

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) The grandson of a slave, and the son and grandson of a Baptist ministry, the great civil rights leader was born Michael Luther King and attended Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University. As pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, he rose to prominence during the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and the desegregation campaign in Birmingham in 1963. The author of numerous volumes, he delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech during the March on Washington in 1963 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the following year, at the age of thirty-five. He continued his nonviolent protests, against discrimination, poverty, and the war in Vietnam, until his assassination, on April 4, 1968. In 1983, the anniversary of his birth, January 20, was designated a federal holiday.

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