阅读理解 B42、 Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s
King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia
When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph
D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil relights movement in 1955
On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and d elivered his best known speech "I Have a Dream" before the Lincoln Memorial
The "dream" is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White