I HAVE A DREAM: Delivering his famous speech to 250'000 people in Washington on August 28, 1963
END: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with Jesse Jackson on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis where he was assassinated
SPEECH: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of racial equality and an end to discrimination from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
JAIL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sits in a jail cell at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama. October 1967
MARCH: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks on a rural road during the March Against Fear. Mississippi 1966
DAPPER: Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966
GOODBYE: Thousands of people follow the casket as the body of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia April 9, 1968
CIVIL RIGHTS: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marches from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African-Americans
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT: President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with Dr. King after the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
ARREST: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is arrested by two white police officers in Montgomery Alabama on September 4, 1958
POWERFUL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with fellow civil rights fighter Rosa Parks
FAMILY: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with wife Coretta and their three children
BORN IN ATLANTA, Georgia on January 15 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. went onto become one of the greatest figures in the Civil Rights movement.
He led the black boycott (1955-56) of segregated city bus lines and later that year gained a major victory when Montgomery buses became integrated.
On August 28, 1963, he delivered his famous speech I Have A Dream on the steps of Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to a crowd of 250,000.
Sadly, five years later on the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. King was assassinated.
We salute and pay tribute to a powerful and inspirational man who put his life on the line to achieve better conditions for black people.
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