Martin
Luther King
Martin Luther King
(1929-1968) is American black Pasteur who
fought for the equal rights of the Blacks to the United States.
Pasteur with Montgomery
(in Alabama), Martin Luther King takes in 1955 the defense of a black worker,
stopped to have refused to indeed yield his place to a white passenger in the
bus At that time, the Blacks do not have the same rights as the White to the
United States, in particular in the State of the South which practises racial
discrimination. In order to express his opposition, Martin Luther King
organizes the boycott of the municipal buses during more than one year. He is
imprisoned a few months, but obtains finally the abolition of the segregation
in public transport of the town of Montgomery.
In the line of Gandhi
in India, Martin Luther King defends the non-violent methods to obtain more reforms. In 1957, it creates
the Conference of the Christian leaders of South (SCLC). Then in August 1963,
it organizes a significant peaceful walk on the capital, Washington,
for the equal rights. On this occasion, it makes in front of 200 000
people a speech become famous, in which it evokes its dream
of a levelling company between Noirs and White (I cuts
has dream…, "I make a dream…").
In 1964, Martin Luther
King receives the Nobel Prize of peace. He
is assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968 by a White. Nearly
100 000 people attend its funeral.
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