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In 1947, Martin Luther King was appointed assistant pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. In September 1954, he was hired by the Dexter Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, to serve as the pastor of the church; in the same year, he was elected as the executive committee member of the Montgomery NAACP. In December 1955, he was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and led the Montgomery bus boycott. In August 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Council was established and elected as its president. On April 12, 1963, he led a large-scale mass demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama; on August 28, he organized the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” to fight for black job opportunities and freedom rights. Martin Luther King King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial; that same year, Martin Luther King became Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. In 1964, Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [1] On the afternoon of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated by a racist on the second floor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was 39 years old.
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