Martin Luther King Jr.
Birth: January 15, 1929
Death: April 4, 1968
• His father, Michael King Sr., changed their
names to Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. when Martin Jr. was about five.
• He was the first African-American to be named Time magazine's Man of...
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Birth: January 15, 1929
Death: April 4, 1968
• His father, Michael King Sr., changed their
names to Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. when Martin Jr. was about five.
• He was the first African-American to be named Time magazine's Man of the Year.
• Youngest person, at the time, to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
• Author of six books published from 1958 through 1968, works on American race relations
and collections of his sermons and lectures.
• According to the King Center, Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech is 17 minutes long.
• 1948 ordained as a Baptist minister
• 1956 King’s house is bombed
• April 4, 1968 - Is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray.
• An investigation reveals that the FBI illegally spied on King's hotel rooms and traced his
home phone calls from 1962-1968 – up until he died.
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