Born: Janurary 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia.
Death: April 4, 1968 Memphis Tennessee.
Famous for: the "I Have a Dream" speech and one of the main leaders of the Civil Rights movement.
Growing up Martin Luther King Jr. came from a middle class family with a strong ministry background. At 15 years old Dr. King went to Morehouse College. Before that however he spent the summer at a tobacco farm in Connecticut. He was very suprised to see that blacks and whites mixed in together. He said "Negroes and whites go to the same church". It seems that King was very surprised that people of different color go to the same places in such segregated times. More on this topic can be found at the following site: http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086
L.S & D.W
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