Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
The son of Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King, he was born in Atlanta in 1929.  He studied at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University, where he met Coretta Scott.  They were married in 1953.  In 1954 he became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and soon became leader of the Montgomery bus boycott.  In 1957 he became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which implemented the non violent principles of Mahatma Gandhi to work for racial justice.  King was the youngest person to ever win the Noble Peace Price. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.  At the time, he was organizing a Poor People’s Campaign to demand economic justice.
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