Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. was an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in American Civil Rights Movement. He was the father of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. was born in Stockbridge, Georgia, and he led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. As the head of the Civic and Political League. He encouraged his son to become active in the movement, which he will be as he gets older. A long time ago, he raised his son how to become an African-American Civil Rights Movement and as he grew up into that, he was in Black History Month. Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. dies at the age of 84 due to a heart attack at Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was Ann American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader of African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of Civil Rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King Jr. became a civil rights activist early in his career. King helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American History. In 1964, King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
In 1968, King Jr. was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated by Lee Harvey on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.
King Jr. was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. The day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986 by Ronald Regan and the other 44 presidents, also the other foreign countries.