Martin Luther King Jr.

Inspired by the belief that love and peaceful protest could get rid of social injustice, Martin Luther King, Jr., became one of the outstanding black leaders in the United States. He excited whites and blacks both to protest racial discrimination, portray, and war. A champion of nonviolent resistance to oppression, he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan.15, 1929. His father, Martin, Sr., was the …

…a hypocrite if he protested racial violence without also condemning the violence of war. Militant black leaders began to attack his appeals for nonviolence. They accused him of being influenced too much by whites. Government officials criticized his stand on Vietnam. Some black leaders felt that King's statements against war dirtied public attention from civil rights. King inspired and planned the Poor People's Campaign, a march on Washington, D.C., in 1968 to dramatize the relationship.