"Eulogy for the Martyred Children"
Eulogy
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
Date: September 18, 1963
Source: King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Eulogy for the Martyred Children." Delivered at Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, September 18, 1963. Available online at http://www.mlkonline.com/eulogy.html (accessed February 2, 2003).
About the Author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), born in Atlanta, Georgia, was ordained a Baptist minister in 1954 and received his doctorate from Boston University in 1955. Instrumental in the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, he advocated nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement. He served as a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956 and the March on Washington in 1963. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, but four years later he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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