Martin Luther King, Jr. Net Worth

Martin Luther King, Jr. Net Worth is
$250 Thousand

Martin Luther King, Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.He was born Michael King, but his father changed his name in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's COINTELPRO for the rest of his life.On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam".In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. The jury of a 1999 civil trial found Loyd Jowers to be complicit in a conspiracy against King. The ruling has since been discredited and a sister of Jowers admitted that he had fabricated the story so he could make $300,000 from selling the story, and she in turn corroborated his story in order to get some money to pay her income tax.King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor. In addition, a county was rededicated in his honor. A memorial statue on the National Mall was opened to the public in 2011.

Net Worth$250 Thousand
Date Of Birth1929-01-15
Died1968-04-04
Place Of BirthAtlanta, Georgia, United States
Height1.89 m
ProfessionScreenwriter, Voice Actor, Playwright
EducationBoston University
NationalityAmerican
SpouseCoretta Scott King
ChildrenYolanda Denise King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, Bernice Albertine King
ParentsMartin Luther King, Sr., Alberta Williams King
AwardsTony Award for Best Play, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Drama Desk ...
NominationsDrama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, Virgin Atlantic Best New Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult, Outer ...
MoviesHairspray Live!, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Mulan, Torch Song Trilogy, Death to Smoochy, Duplex, Mulan II, Bullets over Broadway, Playing Mona Lisa, Garbo Talks, Kull the Conqueror, Safe Men, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Foodfight!, Elmo Saves Christmas, Everything Relative, Double Platinum, Farc...
TV ShowsDaddy's Girls
Source
Wikipedia

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