MLK

• Helped to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957
• Involved in high profile campaigns such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott Birmingham and Selma
• His charisma was demonstrated with the multiracial March On Washington and I have a Dream speech
• Non violent approach had broad appeal
• Largely failed to harness radical will of the 1960s Civil Rights movement
• He received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in 1964

  His birthday became a federal holiday in 1986