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media type="youtube" key="o0FiCxZKuv8" width="425" height="350"By: rajan, Martin Luther King Jr. last speach.media type="custom" key="9457976" Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15,1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Civil Rights Leader, he believed that segregation was unfair and that blacks and whites shouldn't be separated. His mother was a teacher and taught him about the prejudice and laws about what the whites and blacks had to do. Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest person to get the Nobel Peace Prize at age of 35 in 1964. But in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. made a plan which was a intense march in Washington, D.C that contained about 250,000 people. There he gave his famous speech "I Have A Dream". Unfortunately later on people disagreed on his ideas and someone shot him on April 4,1968.

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Martin Luther King Jr ( January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was a civil rights leader. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He originally wanted to be a pastor by his line of family but instead became interested in civil rights for the American people. He was the youngest person to ever get a Nobel Peace Prize at age 35.

King's leadership in the civil rights movement was challenged in the mid-1960s as others grew more militant. His interests Included Making speeches on the civil rights movement and concerning more and more over poverty. On Apr. 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.