Who Was Martin Luther King

Who Was Martin Luther King Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black

people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation,

and other basic civil rights.

Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was threatened,

King was also an advocate for the poor and spoke out against racial and economic injustice until his death from an assassin’s bullet in 1968.