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Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil right movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.
King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.
By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the VietnamWar, both from a religious perspective.
In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986. (192)
馬丁·路德·金(Martin Luther King, Jr.)，將“非暴力”和“直接行動”作為社會變革方法的最為突出的倡導(dǎo)者之一。1929年1月15日，馬丁·路德·金在亞特蘭大出生。馬丁·路德·金是牧師亞當·丹尼爾·威廉姆斯的外孫，威廉姆斯是埃比尼澤浸信會的牧師和全國有色人種協(xié)進會亞特蘭大分會的發(fā)起人;馬丁·路德·金是老馬丁·路德·金的兒子，老馬丁·路德·金繼承父親威廉姆斯成了埃比尼澤的牧師。
馬丁·路德·金的家族發(fā)源于非洲裔美國人的浸信會。在結(jié)束亞特蘭大莫爾浩司學(xué)院的學(xué)業(yè)后，馬丁·路德·金又在賓夕法尼亞州的克勞澤神學(xué)院和波士頓大學(xué)就讀，在學(xué)習(xí)中，馬丁·路德·金加深了對神學(xué)的認識并探究圣雄甘地在社會改革方面的非暴力策略。
n. 歧視，辨別力，識別
