When he was six years old he was told that he couldn't go to the same school as his friends becasue he was black and they were white.
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Three of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s four children, Martin Luther King, III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice Albertine King, are still living. One of his children, Yolanda Denise King, died on May 15, 2007.
Marin Luther married Katharina Bora in 1525. They had six children:Magdalena LutherMargarete KunheimPaul LutherElisabeth LutherHans LutherMartin Luther
hans and margrette luther had 2 girls and 1 son named martin luther
Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray in 1968. Dr. King was standing on a balcony at the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, TN when he was shot. I believe he was in Memphis to help mediate a strike by city workers.
Martin Luther King Jr. was part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He traveled over six million miles and gave over 25 hundred speeches where ever there was inequality, injustice, protest and action. He was arrested of about 20 times and was assaulted at least 4 times.He was awarded 5 honorary degrees, named man of the year by Time magazine in 1963 and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At 35 years old he was the youngest man to receive a Noble Peace Prize and donated the prize money of $54,123 to the civil rights movement. In the evening of April 4, 1968 he was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee where he was to lead a protest march with striking garbage workers in that city.