Martin Luther King Jr. And The Civils Rights Movement

Any number of historic moments in the civil rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. -- prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, keynote speaker at the March on Washington, youngest Nobel Peace Prize laurebate. But single events are less important than the fact that King, and his policy of nonviolent protest, was the dominant force in the civil rights movement during its decade of greatest achievement, from 1957 to 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929 -- one of the three children of Martin Luther King, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Chu…