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C onference, an organization
formed to provide new leadership
for the now burgeoning civil rights
movement. The ideals for this
organization he took from Chris
tianity; its operational techniques
from Gandhi. In the 11-year pe
riod between 1957and1968, King
traveled over 6 million miles and
spoke over 2,500 times, appear
ing wherever there was injustice,
protest, and action; and mean
while he wrote five books as well
as numerous articles.
He led a massive protest in
Birmingham, Ala. that caught the
attention of the entire world, pro
viding what he called a coalition
of conscience, and inspiring his “Letter from a
Birmingham Jail,” a manifesto of the Negro
revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for
address, “I Have a Dream,” he con
ferred with President John F.
Kennedy and campaigned for Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson; he was
arrested upwards of 25 times and
assaulted at least four times; he was
awarded five honorary degrees; was
named Man of the Year by Time
magazine in 1963; and became not
only the symbolic leader of Ameri
can blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of 35, Martin Luther
King, Jr., was the youngest man to
have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
When notified of his selection, he
announced that he would turn over
the prize money of $54,123 to the
furtherance of the civil rights move-
, ment.
On the evening of April 4, 1968,
while standing on the balcony of his motel room
in Memphis, Tenn., where he was to lead a
protest march in sympathy with striking garbage
workers of that city, he was assassinated.
The ideals for this organization he took
from Christianity; its operational
techniques from Gandhi.
the registration of Negroes as voters; he di-
rected the peaceful march on Washington, D.C.,
of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his
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