Martin Luther King is well known as civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964. He was born as civil rights fighter on January 15, 1929 and died in April 4, 1968. His name changed later from Michael to Martin. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia and received his B.A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College known as a Negro institution of Atlanta.
Martin Luther King was awarded the B.D. in 1951 and received the doctorate in 1955. He was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 since then and until 1968, (king travelled over six million miles and spoke over twenty five hundred times wherever there was injustice.) He was awarded five honorary degrees and at the age of thirty five, king was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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