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MARTIN LUTHER KING | Infotainment Video | Series: The Greats | 5 Minute Biography |  Video description: This video is part of the TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT series that highlights the greatest people in history from all walks of life. Each 5-minute short biography covers all aspects of the featured person’s life, including rare videos of them. In this video, we feature Martin Luther King. Discover the remarkable journey of this influential figure and their lasting impact on the world. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.   About TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: Welcome to Trendest Infotainment, your ultimate destination for a diverse range of content that educates, entertains, and inspires! From in-depth celebrity biographies and fascinating history videos to the latest in science and technology, we bring you an expansive collection of infotainment videos. Explore the stories of legendary sports personalities, dive into the history of the World Wars, marvel at wildlife documentaries, and enjoy our informative and funny shorts. There’s something for everyone on Trendest Infotainment!  Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@UCvtG20NOq0X7l7ru-z1yBhw   #Infotainment #Documentaries #HistoryVideos #ScienceAndTech #CelebrityBiographies   Follow Trendest Media:  • YouTube:  1) TRENDEST MOVIES: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_MOVIES_ENGLISH  2) TRENDEST KIDS: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_KIDS  • Instagram:  TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.instagram.com/trendestinfotainment/  • Facebook: TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.facebook.com/TrendestInfotainment/  COPYRIGHT:  We hold the proper licenses for all videos published on YouTube. For any questions, please contact: mail@trendest.in  AYA Media Private Limited & TRENDEST Media Private Limited are companies registered under the laws of India and located in the state of Kerala, India.

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00:00It was

00:29a powerful orator, a charismatic leader, and one of the greatest Americans of all time.

00:35Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a revolution in the 1950s and 60s that ended racial segregation

00:43and pushed civil rights to the forefront of the political agenda.

00:48King excelled academically and graduated with a Ph.D. in theology.

00:52He was only 24 when he became pastor at a Baptist church in Alabama and quickly gained

00:58a reputation with authorities for being an agitator.

01:09King rocketed to prominence as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, a response

01:14to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, as required under

01:19the Jim Crow law.

01:24King was arrested and his house firebombed during the campaign, but it led to a United

01:29States Supreme Court decision that the segregation laws were unconstitutional.

01:36King found himself tapping into a powerful mood for protest and change.

01:41Feelings ran strongly within the African-American community, and he opposed violence and, through

01:46the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, made churches the forefront of the struggle

01:51for racial equality.

01:55King's success as an agent for social change was viewed with suspicion by the FBI, and

02:00they put him under surveillance in an attempt to gather evidence that communists were infiltrating

02:04the civil rights movement.

02:08No such evidence was forthcoming, so the agency attempted to blackmail King into abandoning

02:12his public role.

02:19A quarter of a million Americans from many different racial backgrounds marched on the

02:23nation's capital to demand an end to racial segregation, legislation to ensure racial

02:28equality, and protection for civil rights workers from police brutality.

02:36It was at this demonstration that King gave his historic speech, I Have a Dream.

02:42One day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join

02:47hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

02:51I have a dream today.

02:55The following year, King became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and

03:00had the ears of the world when he delivered his acceptance speech.

03:04Let us ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed

03:11to unrelenting struggle.

03:14Throughout the 1960s, King worked to build bridges between civil rights groups and mobilize

03:18social protesters.

03:20He took his family to live in Chicago's slums to highlight the injustices faced by northern

03:25African Americans.

03:28King also spoke out against the Vietnam War, questioning why the United States government

03:33was propping up the dictators of Southeast Asia.

03:35He met Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X many times, but refused to renounce his policy

03:40of anti-violence.

03:42King's politics made him the target of hate from a range of people, and he constantly

03:46faced threats of violence.

03:48But the civil rights leader refused to be cowed.

03:50On the evening of April 4, 1968, he was standing on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee,

03:56when an assassin fired several shots at him.

03:59An hour later, King was pronounced dead at the hospital.

04:02An entire nation was plunged into mourning.

04:07300,000 people attended his funeral, and many millions more mourned the man who, more than

04:12any other, had brought lasting changes to the conditions and attitudes endured by black

04:17Americans.

04:18And we know that as long as a Negro in this county, as well as over other sections of

04:31the state, can't vote, then many of the other conditions that exist will continue to exist.

04:483, 2, 1.

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