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  Martin Luther King, Jr.  (born  Michael King, Jr. ; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an  American   pastor ,  activist ,  humanitarian , and leader in the  Civil Rights Movement . He was best known for improving  civil rights  by using  nonviolent   civil disobedience , based on his  Christian  beliefs. Because he was both a  Ph.D.  and a pastor, King is sometimes called the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. (abbreviation: the Rev. Dr. King), or just Dr King. [a]  He is also known by his initials  MLK . He was the pastor of the  Ebenezer Baptist Church  in  Atlanta ,  Georgia . King worked hard to make people understand that not only black people but that all  races  should always be treated equally to  white people . He gave speeches to encourage  African Americans  to  protest  without using  violence . Led by Dr. King ...

Jacquline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming speaks about the writing process Brown Girl Dreaming and The American Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement was a multi-decade movement intended to achieve equal rights and treatment for African Americans. The movement is considered to have taken place from 1954–1968, though it drew on a long history of protest against the mistreatment of African Americans. As Woodson notes multiple times in the book, even after the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865, Jim Crow laws and general prejudice prevented African Americans from equal treatment in many arenas. Many see the end of World War II as the impetus for the Civil Rights movement. Many African Americans fought in World War II, a war predicated upon the United States's commitment to freedom. This made the blatant discrimination they faced upon returning home to the United States all the more salient. Tensions from the post-war 1940s spilled ...