Martin Luther King Jr.: biografi og borgerrettighedskamp

Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, and was killed the 4th of April in 1968 on his hotel balcony by James Earl Ray. He got a judgment on 99 years. He had 4 kids, Yolanda Denise King, Martin Luther king III, Dexter Scoot King, Bernice Albertine King. Martin Luther King held the speech “I Have a Dream” in Washington D.C in 1963 and then a year later (1964) he won the Nobel’s Peace Prize.He got Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” in 1977 which was a posthumous award, then he got the “Congressional Gold Medal” in 2004, which also was a posthumous award. A posthumous award is an award you give someone after their dead. Martin Luther King was fighting for civil rights; he wanted everyone to live in harmony and peace. He wanted black and white people to work together, take bus together, to eat on the same restaurant and stuff like that.On recordings from the speech it seems, that Martin Luther King didn’t read from his paper. Suddenly a woman named Mahalia Jackson shouted to Martin. She shouted: “Come on Martin! Tell them about you dream!” It gave him support! The speech in front of 200.000 people is one of the most influential speeches in the USA. The speech lasted 17 minutes. It was on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial.