| − | Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (1929-1968) was the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, who became an advocate against discrimination based on race and later a critic of the war in Vietnam. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On Dec. 31, 1955, he led the nonviolent boycott of city buses of Montgomery, Alabama, after [[Rosa Parks]] was arrested for not moving to the back of the bus.<ref>http://www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/chronology.html</ref> | + | Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (1929-1968) was the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, who became an advocate against racial discrimination and was later a critic of the war in Vietnam. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On Dec. 31, 1955, he led the nonviolent boycott of city buses of Montgomery, Alabama, after [[Rosa Parks]] was arrested for not moving to the back of the bus.<ref>http://www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/chronology.html</ref> |
| | Rev. King wrote his most famous writing, “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” (1963), while imprisoned for demonstrating against segregated eating facilities. | | Rev. King wrote his most famous writing, “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” (1963), while imprisoned for demonstrating against segregated eating facilities. |