Martin Luther King Jr - Maxi Description

A fabulous poster of Martin Luther King Jr in action during one of his historical speaches. Born on Jan 15 1929, he was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement.  A Baptist minister by training, King became a civil rights activist early in his career, leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986.