Christianity

Philanthropist and Polemicist. King born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America and he educated at the Afro-American Morehouse College and Boston University. After becoming a Baptist minister, he served a congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, from 1954. At this period, black Americans were campaigning against segregation and King organised a boycott of buses which resulted in a desegregation order from the Supreme Court. From 19600,he worked full time for the Civil Rights Movement. In 1964 the Civil Rights Bill passed and, he awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Influenced by the Indian leader Gandhi, he committed to nonviolent methods. He ...