MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, BY ROBERT JAKOUBEK
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(Danbury March 24, 1991)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929, the son of a Baptist minister in Atlantic Georgia; ordained as a minister age 19; became known as a leading spokesman for the Montgomery bus boycott in 1954. It all started when a seamstress, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat because she was tired and was put in jail.