Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.and April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee. He married and four children. He a Baptist minister and social activist who the civil rights movement in the United States. His leadership fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. He his famous speech « I have a dream ». He peaceful demonstrations and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He assassinated in 1968.