Martin Luther King: Current thinking in defense of African-Americans (+assassination)

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, a defender of civil rights and African-Americans, was assassinated in Memphis, United States.

This revolutionary was born on January 15, 1929, and was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where racism and a kind of neo-slavery prevailed, where people of African descent were considered inferior human beings, so they received lower salaries and had no right to vote, education and access to public spaces.

On August 23, 1963, he led a march in Washington, D.C., attended by more than 250,000 people. They went to the Capitol to demand that civil rights laws be passed. It was that day that he delivered his famous speech I have a dream in Washington DC. His activism for the equality of African Americans and the end of racial segregation earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

In March 1965, he led a demonstration of thousands of civil rights defenders who traveled nearly a hundred kilometers, from Selma, where acts of racial violence had occurred, to Montgomery.

After achieving the advance of the forces for equal rights, where he even organized one of the largest marches ever held in the United States, which marched on the city of Washington, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated, who continues to be the beacon of an American society, fighting for the end of racism, wars and imperialism.

Reverend Martin Luther King was a tireless fighter against racism and for the social rights of minorities in the United States, whose principles keep millions of people alive in the world.

Mazo News Team