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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929 in his grandfather's house. After completing seminary and earning his doctorate, he became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. King is one of the most recognizable figures of the Civil Rights Movement. He played a major role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, which resulted in a U.S. District Court ruling that ended racial segregation on Montgomery city buses. He then went on to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference along with other key Civil Rights activists in 1957. In 1963, Dr. King led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. The impact of the March and specifically of Dr. King's speech was indelible, leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and effectively ending segregation in schools and public buildings. Later, Dr. King led the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama, now  Selma to Montgomery NST.  

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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, where his birth home is preserved

The King Center-founded by Dr. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, after his assassination

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, which commemorates the events and people of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama

Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site explores the case that ended legal segregation in public schools

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitewhere nine African-American teenagers entered the newly integrated school for the first time, testing the decision of the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka