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Martin Luther King Jr.

मार्टिन लूथर किंग

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights in the United States through the use of nonviolence and sometimes civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

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Born
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Place of birth
Atlanta wd
Died
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Place of death
St. Joseph's Hospital wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, peace activist, pacifist, writer wd
Education
Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, Boston University, Washington High School, Boston University School of Theology, David T. Howard High School, Candler School of Theology wd
Spouse
Coretta Scott King wd
Official website
thekingcenter.org wd

Awards wd

  • Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
  • Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1966)
  • United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (1978)
  • Gandhi Peace Award (1964)
  • Pacem in Terris Award (1965)
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1959)
  • Margaret Sanger Awards (1966)
  • Time Person of the Year (1963)
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
  • Congressional Gold Medal (2004)
  • Humanitarian of the Year (1984)
  • Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Spingarn Medal (1957)
  • honorary doctor of the Hofstra University

Questions

When was Martin Luther King Jr. born?
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta.
Where did Martin Luther King Jr. study?
Martin Luther King Jr. was educated at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, Boston University, Washington High School.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Martin Luther King Jr. · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (Nepali): मार्टिन लूथर किंग · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Wikidata item Q8027 · CC0 1.0
  4. Image: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson (cropped).jpg by Yoichi Okamoto (Public domain)

Last updated · facts checked 15 November 2026

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