judy parfitt

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:31:24 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; ) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his. Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. His most famous work is his I Have a Dream speech, delivered in 1963, in which he. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile. Although King was only 39 at the time of his death, his life was remarkable for the ways it reflected and inspired so many of the twentieth centurys major intellectual, cultural, and political developments.