En attendant godot

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Martin Luther King Jr., African-American Baptist pastor was born in Atlanta, Georgia January 15, 1929. His father and grandfather were Baptist preachers who had been actively involved in the civil rights movement.
In 1947 he was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church. It is then an assistant in his home parish in Atlanta, alongside his father.
Then June 18, 1953 he married Coretta Scott in Alabama. In September after they settle in the city of Montgomery. Then came December 1, 1955, on a bus in Montgomery, a black woman aged 42 years nameOf known as Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man. Rosa Parks was then arrested by police and ordered to pay a fine of $ 15. Following the arrest of Rosa Parks on December 5, 1955, martin luther king launches a campaign to boycott the bus company, it is this element that will make it go fight against racism. Following a trial witness to this affair, which ended December 21, 1956, the Supreme Court declared the laws of racial segregation on buses in Alabama.
In 1963 he suffered several arrests following his own ideas such as voting rights for blacks, the end of segregation .. In his speech "I have a dream" August 28, he enunciated his dream of a free America where whites and blacks would be united.
On 14 October 1864, he won the nobel peace through his work against racism.
His last fight was in 1967 when he opposed the Vietnam War.
And finally, he was assassinated at age 38 by James Earl Ray (a segregationist white) in

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