Martin Luther King - Biography Audiobook
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Here is an audiobook that describes the life of a truly exceptional man:
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. There is a long tradition of priesthood in this family, beginning with his grandfather. From 1960 until his death Martin Luther King was co-pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.After his theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania he was awarded the B.D. in 1951 and his doctrate degree from Boston University in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott and had two sons and two daughters with Coretta.
In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In December, 1955, he lead the great Negro nonviolent demonstration, the ‘bus boycott’. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals.
In 1957 Martin Luther King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he met President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested more than twenty times and often assaulted. Martin Luther King was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of only thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers, he was assassinated.
In ‘The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.’ by Clayborne Carson King’s life and work is decribe with many examples of it meant at the time to battle against segregation and to stand up for the human rights ob blacks.




























