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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great leader of the 1950's. King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta. He was born as Michael Luther King and in his early childhood Changed his name to Martin, after his father, a baptist minister. He attended segragated public schools along with the Booker T Washington High School. King got a major in sociology. After high school he attended Boston University and recieved his Phd 1955. At Boston University he met Coretta Scott and they married in the summer of 1953. Martin Luther King Jr. lead the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. After leading this he became the symbol of the civil rights movement. King went to jail because of violation of an injunction to halt the demonstrations. King's "Letter from a Birmingham jail is one of his famous statements. It was on the moral and religious basis for the civil rights movement. The purpose for his campaign in Birmingham was to confront the problem of racial discrimination. This was a big problem in the 1950s.

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