Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was by far the most important [[black people|black]] leader of the 1960s. He was an advocate of [[civil rights]] in [[America]], who was [[assassination|assassinated]] in 1968. King was the son of a [[Baptist]] minister and became a Baptist minister himself.<ref>King became the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].</ref> | Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was by far the most important [[black people|black]] leader of the 1960s. He was an advocate of [[civil rights]] in [[America]], who was [[assassination|assassinated]] in 1968. King was the son of a [[Baptist]] minister and became a Baptist minister himself.<ref>King became the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].</ref> |