Martin Luther King Jr. Change through non-violent process

Martin Luther King. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) He was an American activist and prominent leader in the Afro-American civil rights movement. Luther King had an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights of depressive class in the United States and around the world, by non-violent process. He is often presented as a heroic leader of modern American liberalism in the history of America.

King became a civil rights activist early in his political career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and helped establishing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and serving as its first president. Luther King's efforts led to the 1963 as remarkably March on Washington, where King delivered his most famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. On the occasion, he desired American values to include the image of a colour blind society, and he established his political reputation as one of the greatest speakers in American history.

King became the youngest person to receive (in 1964) the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle to end racial isolation and racial discrimination by non-violent efforts. By the time of his assassination in 1968, he had refocused on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War.

On April 4, 1968, he was assassinated, in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, King was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and in 2004 Congressional Gold Medal. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrated in the U.S.A every year that was established as an American national holiday in 1986.

King's famous speech 'I have a dream' can be seen as below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk (Thanks to youtube)