小马丁-路德-金（1929-1968 年）在佐治亚州种族隔离公立学校就读，15 岁高中毕业。1948 年，他从美国黑人院校莫尔豪斯学院获得学士学位。1951 年，他在克罗泽神学院（Crozer Theological Seminary）进行了三年的神学学习，并当选为以白人为主的高年级班的班长，之后他获得了博士学位。
1954 年，马丁-路德-金成为阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市德克斯特大道浸信会教堂的牧师。此时，他已成为全国有色人种协进会执行委员会的成员，该协会是同类组织中的佼佼者。1955 年 12 月，他成为美国当代第一次大规模非裔美国人非暴力示威活动--持续 382 天的抵制公共汽车活动--的领导人。1956 年 12 月 21 日，在美国最高法院宣布要求在公共汽车上实行种族隔离的法律违宪之后，非裔美国人和白人第一次平等地乘坐公共汽车。在这些抵制活动的日子里，金被捕了，他的家被炸了，他还受到了人身虐待。但与此同时，他也成为了一流的领袖。
In 1957 King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the 11-year period between 1957 and his murder in 1968, King traveled over 6 million miles and spoke over 2,500 times; he also wrote five books as well as numerous articles. He led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, inspiring his ""Letter from a Birmingham Jail"". He planned the voting registration drives in Alabama for African Americans; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, ""l Have a Dream"". He was arrested upwards of 20 times and assaulted at least four times.At the age of 35, Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He turned the prize money over to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. 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.
特色作品
