Martin Luther King Known as one of the most effective advocates of nonviolence and direct action as a method of social reform, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929. ... This is where he studied his trademark action, non-violent protest as an effective social reform. ... King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the position to be a pastor, like his father, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. ... The events which took place in and around his life were earth shattering, and represented an America which was hostile a...

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