Martin Luther King, Jr is a black civil-rights leader who was active since World War II. He was deeply influenced by Gandhi, who advocated non-violence protests, the elimination of racial discrimination, emancipation of colonies, and theory of universal brotherhood. King received his doctorate from Boston University and assumed the pastorate of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. In December 1955, his second year at the church, he led the "Montogmery Bus Boycott Campaign," which was held by black citizens against segregation in a bus, and won the victory in December 1956, one year later.
Immediately afterwards, he organized Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). King was active as a civil rights movement leader focusing on bringing about equal civil rights to blacks based on non-violence protests. He was assassinated in April 1968 while seeking to assist a garbage worker's strike in Memphis, Tennessee. He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.