Birthday: To the measure of some lives, we can only add our gratitude.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Minister, activist, author

Recipient, The Nobel Prize for Peace, 1964

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Author, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958); The Measure of A Man (1959); Strength to Love (1963); Why We Can’t Wait (1964); Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967); A Trumpet of Conscience (1968).