在本栏目我们回顾历史上本周发生的历史事件——马丁·路德金，听听下面的短文，做做下面的练习，学习一些相关的英语表达形式。
本周是1月16日至1月22日历史上发生的事件。 | | On the 15th January 1929 Martin Luther King was born. He was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement. A Baptist minister by training, King became a civil rights activist early in his career, leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, raising public consciousness of the civil rights movement and establishing King as one of the greatest orators in American history. |
| | In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racialdiscrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. |
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