Posted on Jan 15, 2026
Martin Luther King Jr. born | January 15, 1929 | HISTORY
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On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major protest of the African American civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. Influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, he advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to segregation in the South. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his followers persisted, and the movement gained momentum.
Martin Luther King Jr. born | January 15, 1929 | HISTORY
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COL (Join to see) I appreciate seeing this post. In my young life, I lived through the bombings, tears and his assassination. As an adult, I recognize how he and others made my life different than then. Now, I hope at my conclusion of life on this side that people who are living like hell and disgrace on purpose learn and respect where they did not have to dwell or see good people did for them. I would like for them to change their "on purpose" bad behavior and become deserving of world of fairness that he and many, many died without seeing the change.
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