historical figure
...rs. Christian Leadership Conference, organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. At age 35 Martin Luther King Jr. was youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection he announced he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil right movement. In early December 1955 to accept the leadership of the 1st great Negro Nonviolent demonstration of Contemporary times in the United States bus boycott. The boycott lasted 382 days. December 21, 1956 after the supreme court of United States declared unconstitutional laws requiring segregation on buses, Negro’s and whites rode the buses as equals. During days of boycott King was arrested, his home was bombed, and not only that he was also subjected to personal abuse. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. He has work terribly hard for us to have all of the opportunities we are encou...