What Are Martin Luther King Jr's Major Accomplishments

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader for thirteen years, from 1955 until 1968. He lead movements in the late ‘50s and ‘60s for legal equality. Dr. King was born on January 5, 1929 and was assassinated on the evening of April 4, 1968. He was the youngest man to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize at age thirty-five. Some of his important achievements were: In 1957, he was elected president of the SCLC, in 1965, the Voting Rights Act was passed and Dr. King lead the AL March of Voting Rights to gain this right, and between 1956 and 1968, Dr. King started to focus more on economic justice. During the time that Dr. King delivered his speech “Beyond Vietnam”, which was delivered in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was the first black justice
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on the 15th of January in 1929 and died on the 4th of April, 1968. He was born as Michael Luther King, Jr. but later had his name changed to Martin. King was born in Atlanta where he grew up. He went to Booker T. Washington High School where he skipped 2 two grades (ninth and eleventh grades) because of how smart he was and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at the age of 15, 1944. Four years later, King earned a Sociology Degree and attended the Liberal Crozer…

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