第一篇：馬丁路德金 中英文背景介紹

On Monday, January 16, Americans will pay tribute to the legacy of slain civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.in the annual national holiday that celebrates his birthday(January 15).More than 50 years ago, King campaigned across the United States, leading non-violent marches and demonstrations for equal rights for African Americans.1月15日是被刺身亡的美國(guó)黑人民權(quán)領(lǐng)袖馬.路德.金的生日。而馬丁.路德.金生日之后的星期一則是法定的馬丁.路德.金紀(jì)念日-美國(guó)的一個(gè)全國(guó)性節(jié)日。50多年前，馬丁.路德.金走遍美國(guó)各地，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)非洲裔美國(guó)人通過非暴力游行示威來爭(zhēng)取平等權(quán)利，這場(chǎng)運(yùn)動(dòng)對(duì)美國(guó)產(chǎn)生了深遠(yuǎn)的影響。

Martin Luther King Jr.'s rise as a civil rights leader began in 1955 when he spearheaded the drive to desegregate public buses in Montgomery, Alabama.1955年，馬丁.路德.金在美國(guó)南部阿拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利市率先發(fā)起了一場(chǎng)爭(zhēng)取廢除公共汽車上種族歧視規(guī)定的運(yùn)動(dòng)。從那時(shí)起，馬丁.路德.金逐步躍升為一位民權(quán)領(lǐng)袖。

By August 1963, Reverend King's push for equal rights had become a national movement.That month, more than 250,000 people took part in the March on Washington.Led by King, it was designed to pressure lawmakers to pass a civil rights bill that would end racial discrimination.Former civil rights activist Roger Wilkins was there on the day marchers gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial.1963年8月，馬丁.路德.金推動(dòng)平等權(quán)利的努力擴(kuò)展成為一場(chǎng)全國(guó)范圍的運(yùn)動(dòng)。當(dāng)時(shí)，超過25萬(wàn)人參加了在首都華盛頓進(jìn)行的游行。在馬丁.路德.金的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，這場(chǎng)游行向國(guó)會(huì)議員施壓，要求通過民權(quán)法案，結(jié)束種族歧視。前民權(quán)活動(dòng)家羅杰.威爾金斯當(dāng)時(shí)就在林肯紀(jì)念堂外聆聽馬丁.路德.金的講話。

“It was a glorious warm summer day in which people were rejuvenated,” Wilkins recalled.“There was just a good feeling of a country coming together.You really felt, I did for the first time in my life, the weight of America's conscience.”

威爾金斯說：“那是一個(gè)溫和而美好夏日，令人精神煥發(fā)，有一種全國(guó)團(tuán)結(jié)一致的美好感覺。我第一次感到，美國(guó)人良心的重量?！?/p>

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

馬丁.路德.金說：“我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)，有一天，我的四個(gè)孩子將生活在這樣一個(gè)國(guó)家，這個(gè)國(guó)家不用膚色，而是按照品格來衡量我的孩子?！?/p>

It was these non-violent protests and his speeches that drove the civil rights movement forward, and kept the nation focused on the issue of equality.正是這些非暴力的抗議活動(dòng)和馬丁.路德.金的講話推動(dòng)民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)向前發(fā)展，并讓全國(guó)都關(guān)注平等問題。

King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and that same year President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the following year the Voting Rights Act.The measures outlawed racial segregation in public places and discriminatory practices that prevented blacks from voting.Martin Luther King's final campaign was in Memphis, Tennessee in March and April of 1968.He led a march in support of striking sanitation workers.But the protest turned violent when young militants began looting stores.King was distraught and vowed to return to Memphis to lead a peaceful march.On the night of April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel, King was assassinated.馬丁.路德.金最后一次活動(dòng)地點(diǎn)是1968年三四月的田納西州孟菲斯。他帶領(lǐng)游行隊(duì)伍支持環(huán)衛(wèi)工人的罷工。但抗議活動(dòng)演變成暴力沖突，年輕的激進(jìn)分子開始搶劫商店。馬丁.路德.金悲痛欲絕，發(fā)誓要返回孟菲斯發(fā)起一場(chǎng)和平游行。1968年4月4日馬丁.路德.金在洛林汽車旅館被人暗殺。

Forty years later, King's life is celebrated with many of his dreams realized, including the election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African American president.40年后，馬丁.路德.金的許多夢(mèng)想都得以實(shí)現(xiàn)，包括奧巴馬成為美國(guó)第一位黑人總統(tǒng)。

第二篇：馬丁路德金介紹（模版）

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個(gè)人簡(jiǎn)介

馬丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King, Jr.，1929年1月15日—1968年4月4日），著名的美國(guó)民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)領(lǐng)袖，誕生于美國(guó)東南部的佐治亞州的亞特蘭大市。1948年他大學(xué)畢業(yè)，擔(dān)任教會(huì)的牧師。1948年到1951年間，馬丁·路德·金在美國(guó)東海岸的費(fèi)城繼續(xù)深造。1963年，馬丁·路德·金晉見了肯尼迪總統(tǒng)，要求通過新的民權(quán)法，給黑人以平等的權(quán)利。1964諾貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)獲得者，有金牧師之稱。1968年4月，馬丁路德金前往孟菲斯市領(lǐng)導(dǎo)工人罷工，下榻洛林汽車旅館。4日晚飯前，他立在二樓三百號(hào)房間的陽(yáng)臺(tái)上，與人談話。這時(shí)在街對(duì)面的一幢公寓里，一個(gè)狙擊手端著一架帶有觀測(cè)鏡的汽步槍，向他射去。子彈從前面穿過他的脖子，在顎后爆炸，他隨即倒地不起。1963年在林肯紀(jì)念堂前發(fā)表《我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想》的演說。

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學(xué)歷

1929年1月15日馬丁·路德·金出生于佐治亞州的亞特蘭大市奧本街501號(hào)，一幢維多利亞式的小樓里。他的父親是教會(huì)牧師，母親是教師。15歲時(shí)聰穎好學(xué)的金以優(yōu)異成績(jī)進(jìn)入摩爾豪斯學(xué)院攻讀社會(huì)學(xué)，后獲得文學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位（1948年馬丁·路德·金獲得莫爾豪斯大學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位）。1951年他又獲得柯羅澤神學(xué)院學(xué)士學(xué)位，1955年他從波士頓大學(xué)獲得神學(xué)博士學(xué)位。

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個(gè)人事業(yè)

1954年馬丁·路德·金成為亞拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利市的德克斯特大街浸信會(huì)教堂（Dexter Avenue Baptist Church）的一位牧師。1955年12月1日，一位名叫做羅沙·帕克斯的黑人婦女在公共汽車上拒絕給白人讓座位，因而被蒙哥馬利節(jié)警察當(dāng)局的當(dāng)?shù)鼐瘑T以違反公共汽車座位隔離條令為由逮捕了她。馬丁·路德·金立即組織了蒙哥馬利罷車運(yùn)動(dòng)（蒙哥馬利市政改進(jìn)協(xié)會(huì)），號(hào)召全市近5萬(wàn)名黑人對(duì)公共法與公司進(jìn)行長(zhǎng)達(dá)1年的抵制，迫使法院判決取消地方運(yùn)輸工具上的座位隔離。從此他成為民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)的領(lǐng)袖人物。1958年他因流浪罪被逮捕。1963年金組織了爭(zhēng)取黑人工作機(jī)會(huì)和自由權(quán)的華盛頓游行。1964年，他被授予諾貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)。1968年4月4日，他在旅館的陽(yáng)臺(tái)被一名種族分子刺客開槍正中喉嚨致死。

1986年1月，總統(tǒng)羅納德·里根簽署法令，規(guī)定每年一月份的第三個(gè)星期一為美國(guó)的馬丁·路德·金全國(guó)紀(jì)念日以紀(jì)念這位偉人，并且訂為法定假日。迄今為止美國(guó)只有三個(gè)以個(gè)人紀(jì)念日為法定假日的例子，分別為紀(jì)念發(fā)現(xiàn)美洲大陸的哥倫布的Columbus Day（十月第二個(gè)星期一），紀(jì)念喬治·華盛頓的Presidents' Day（二月第三個(gè)星期一），與此處所提到的馬丁·路德·金紀(jì)念日。他最有影響力且最為人知的一場(chǎng)演講是1963年8月28日的《我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想》，迫使美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)在1964年通過《民權(quán)法案》宣布種族隔離和種族歧視政策為非法政策。

馬丁·路德·金為黑人謀求平等，發(fā)動(dòng)了美國(guó)的民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)，功績(jī)卓著，聞名于世。金在成為民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)積極分子之前，是黑人社區(qū)必有的浸禮會(huì)的牧師。民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)是美國(guó)黑人教會(huì)的產(chǎn)物，本文記敘金的第一次民權(quán)演說，揭示了民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)與黑人教會(huì)的關(guān)系。

第三篇：馬丁路德金的中英文簡(jiǎn)介

January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King was born in the US city of Atlanta, 501 Auburn Street, a small building of Victoria.His father was a pastor and his mother is a teacher.Where he learned how to postpone your love from the mother, sympathy and understanding of others;Learned from the father of bold, strong, candid and frank.Blacks living in the district but he also felt the dignity and personality as a black suffering.15, USA diligent with distinction in the College studying sociology Moore Niehaus, after obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree.Although the US post-war economy has developed rapidly, and strong political, military boarded it “free world” chief of Kau Yi.Blacks may have in the domestic economic and political discrimination and oppression.Faced with the ugly reality that is determined to achieve social equality and justice as a priest.He has enrolled in the Boston University Kelaze seminary and in 1955 received a doctorate of theology in Alabama, Montgomery City Baptist Church for a single Christian pastor.December 1955, police authorities in violation of section Montgomery bus segregation ordinances seats on the grounds that the arrest of black women, Rosa Parkes.Gold was with several black activists organized “Montgomery municipal improvement associations” and called on the city of nearly 50,000 Ethiopian law and public companies as long as a year boycott, forcing the court to abolish local carriers seating segregation.This is the first time in the southern United States Ethiopian forces achieved their struggles to open a sustained the civil rights movement for more than 10 years prelude, and also makes payments into the civil rights movement leader Dr.training.April 4, 1968, the ethnic elements were assassinated.The US government, from 1986 onwards, the annual January 3 Monday for Martin Luther King National Day.

第四篇：馬丁路德金中英文對(duì)照

讀完，他給我的第一感覺就是他是一個(gè)英雄，一個(gè)民族英雄。二次世界大戰(zhàn)后，他就開始為黑人民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)而戰(zhàn)斗一生。他曾組織了美國(guó)歷史上最大規(guī)模的民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)。不幸的是在1968年，金被人開槍謀殺。

馬丁·路德·金 擁有不屈的精神，即使坐牢、拷打和賄賂，都不能讓他停止奮斗，不能終止黑人要求平等權(quán)利的運(yùn)動(dòng)。因?yàn)樗呐?，他獲得了諾貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)。他被稱為信使，他向所有為和平而奮斗的人傳遞著一個(gè)號(hào)召...他已向西方世界證明，不用武力也可以發(fā)起一場(chǎng)斗爭(zhēng)。

同時(shí)馬丁·路德·金極具演說才能，口才出眾，言辭精湛，是語(yǔ)言大師，極具影響力，擁有極強(qiáng)的表達(dá)能力，真實(shí)且不會(huì)引起誤解。他最有影響力且最為人知的演講是《我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想》，導(dǎo)致美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)在1964年通過《民權(quán)法案》宣布種族隔離和歧視政策為非法政策。

他的主張非常正直，他曾說“這場(chǎng)運(yùn)動(dòng)不是要以讓白人困窘或者使白人變?yōu)榕`為代價(jià)來解放黑人，它尋求的不是針對(duì)任何一方的勝利”。從這可以看出，黑人運(yùn)動(dòng)是一場(chǎng)正義之戰(zhàn)，不是為了給世界增添混亂。

最讓我痛恨的是一個(gè)邪惡的人想讓這位領(lǐng)袖永遠(yuǎn)保持沉默，開槍結(jié)束了他的生命。，雖然他的生命結(jié)束了，但是他的夢(mèng)想以及為正義、和平而戰(zhàn)的斗爭(zhēng)卻留存了下來。

After reading, he gave me the first impression is that he is a hero, a national hero.After the two World War, he started for the black civil rights movement fighting for a life.He has organized American the largest in the history of the civil rights movement.In 1968, king was shot and murdered.Martin Luther King is a man of indomitable spirit, even in jail, torture and bribery,it don't let him stop fighting and cannot terminate blacks demanded equal rights movement.Because of his hard work, he got Nobel peace prize.He was known as the messenger, his struggle for peace to all who pass a call...He proved to the western world that no force can also launched a struggle.Martin luther king was an eloquent speaker , and is a master of language, he has a strong ability to express the true and not misleading.He is the most influential and the well known speech “I have a dream”,it is leading to American Congress in 1964 passed the “bill of rights” declared racial segregation and discrimination policy for illegal policy.His idea is very upright, he said “this movement not to let the white embarrassment or make white into the cost of the liberation of black slaves, it seeks not against any party victory”.From this we can see that, the black movement is the just war, not to add confusion to the world.The most let I hate is an evil person wants the leader forever silent,and ended his life., although the end of his life, but his dream and struggle for justice,peace has survived.

第五篇：馬丁路德金英語(yǔ)介紹

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Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)was an American clergyman, activist, and

Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement.His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches.[1] 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 in 1957, serving as its first president.King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S.history.In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective.King was

assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004;Martin Luther King, Jr.Day was established as a U.S.national holiday in 1986.Populist tradition and Black populism

Harry C.Boyte, a self-proclaimed populist, field secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and white civil rights activist describes an episode in his life that gives insight on some of King's influences:

My first encounter with deeper meanings of populism came when I was nineteen, working as a field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC)in St.Augustine, Florida in 1964.One day I was caught by five men and a woman who were members of the Ku Klux Klan.They accused me of being a “communist and a Yankee.” I replied, “I'm no Yankee – my family has been in the South since before the Revolution.And I'm not a communist.I'm a populist.I believe that blacks and poor whites should join to do something about the big shots who keep us divided.” For a few minutes we talked about what such a movement might look like.Then they let me go.When he learned of the incident, Martin Luther King, head of SCLC, told me that he identified with the populist tradition and assigned me to organize poor whites.Thurman

Civil rights leader, theologian, and educator Howard Thurman was an early influence on King.A classmate of King's father at Morehouse College, Thurman mentored the young King and his friends.Thurman's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with Mahatma Gandhi.When he was a student at Boston University, King

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often visited Thurman, who was the dean of Marsh Chapel.Walter Fluker, who has

studied Thurman's writings, has stated, “I don't believe you'd get a Martin Luther King, Jr.without a Howard Thurman”.Gandhi and Rustin

Inspired by Gandhi's success with non-violent activism, King visited Gandhi's birthplace in India in 1959, with assistance from the Quaker group the American Friends Service Committee.The trip to India affected King in a profound way, deepening his

understanding of non-violent resistance and his commitment to America's struggle for civil rights.In a radio address made during his final evening in India, King reflected, “Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation.” African American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who had studied Gandhi's teachings, counseled King to dedicate himself to the principles of non-violence, served as King's main advisor and mentor throughout his early activism, and was the main organizer of the 1963 March on

Washington.Rustin's open homosexuality, support of democratic socialism, and his former ties to the Communist Party USA caused many white and African-American leaders to demand King distance himself from Rustin.Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955

In March 1955, a fifteen-year-old school girl, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with the Jim Crow laws.King was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that looked into the case;Edgar Nixon and Clifford Durr decided to wait for a better case to pursue.On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by Nixon and led by King, soon followed.The boycott lasted for 385 days, and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed.King was arrested during this campaign, which ended with a United States District Court ruling in Browder v.Gayle that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.March on Washington, 1963

King, representing SCLC, was among the leaders of the so-called “Big Six” civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place on August 28, 1963.The other leaders and

organizations comprising the Big Six were: Roy Wilkins from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;Whitney Young, National Urban League;A.Philip Randolph, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters;John Lewis, SNCC;and James L.Farmer, Jr.of the Congress of Racial Equality.The primary logistical and strategic organizer was King's colleague Bayard Rustin.For King, this role was another which courted controversy, since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of President John F.Kennedy in changing the focus of the march.Kennedy initially opposed the march outright, because he was concerned it would negatively impact the drive for

passage of civil rights legislation, but the organizers were firm that the march would proceed.The march originally was conceived as an event to dramatize the desperate condition of blacks in the southern United States and a very public opportunity to place organizers' concerns and grievances squarely before the seat of power in the nation's capital.Organizers intended to excoriate and then challenge the federal government for its failure to safeguard the civil rights and physical safety of civil rights workers and blacks, generally, in the South.However, the group acquiesced to presidential pressure and influence, and the event ultimately took on a far less strident tone.As a result, some civil rights activists felt it presented an inaccurate, sanitized pageant of racial harmony;Malcolm X called it the “Farce on Washington,” and members of the Nation of Islam were not permitted to attend the march.The march did, however, make specific demands: an end to racial segregation in public school;meaningful civil rights legislation, including a law prohibiting racial discrimination in employment;protection of civil rights workers from police brutality;a $2 minimum wage for all workers;and self-government for Washington, D.C., then governed by congressional committee.Despite tensions, the march was a resounding success.More than a quarter million people of diverse ethnicities attended the event, sprawling from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial onto the National Mall and around the reflecting pool.At the time, it was the largest gathering of protesters in Washington's history.King's “I Have a Dream” speech electrified the crowd.It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D.Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory.Assassination

On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee in support of the black sanitary public works employees, represented by AFSCME Local 1733, who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment.In one incident, black street

repairmen received pay for two hours when they were sent home because of bad weather, but white employees were paid for the full day.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day

At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King.Observed for the first time on

January 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr.Day.Following President George H.W.Bush's 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of January each year, near the time of King's birthday.On January 17, 2000, for the first time, Martin Luther King Jr.Day was officially observed in all fifty U.S.states.1948年大學(xué)畢業(yè)。1948年到1951年間，在美國(guó)東海岸的費(fèi)城繼續(xù)深造。1963年，馬丁·路德·金晉見了肯尼迪總統(tǒng)，要求通過新的民權(quán)法，給黑人以平等的權(quán)利。1963年8月28日在林肯紀(jì)念堂前發(fā)表《我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想》的演說。1964諾貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)獲得者。1968年4月，馬丁·路德·金前往孟菲斯市領(lǐng)導(dǎo)工人罷工被人謀殺，年僅39歲。1986年起美國(guó)政府將

每年1月的第三個(gè)星期一定為馬丁路德金全國(guó)紀(jì)念日。另有美國(guó)著名歷史學(xué)家阿瑟·施萊辛格（Arthur M.Schlesinger，Jr.，1917-2007）以該人物事跡出版了同名人物傳記。個(gè)人簡(jiǎn)介

馬丁·路德·金(Dr.Martin Luther King)，將“非暴力（”nonviolence）和“直接行動(dòng)（”direct action）作為社會(huì)變革方法的最為突出的倡導(dǎo)者之一。1929 年1月15日，馬丁·路德·金在亞特蘭大（Atlanta）出生。他是牧師亞當(dāng)·丹尼爾·威廉姆斯（Rev.A.D.Williams）的外孫，威廉姆斯是埃比尼澤浸信會(huì)（Ebenezer Baptist Church）的牧師和全國(guó)有色人種協(xié)進(jìn)會(huì)（NAACP）亞特蘭大分會(huì)的發(fā)起人；他是老馬丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King, Sr.）的兒子，老馬丁·路德·金繼承父親威廉姆斯成了埃比尼澤的牧師。金的家族發(fā)源于非洲裔美國(guó)人的浸信會(huì)。在結(jié)束亞特蘭大莫爾浩司學(xué)院（Morehouse College）的學(xué)業(yè)后，金又在賓夕法尼亞州（Pennsylvania）的克勞澤神學(xué)院（Crozer Theological Seminary）和波士頓（Boston University）大學(xué)就讀，在學(xué)習(xí)中，他加深了對(duì)神學(xué)的認(rèn)識(shí)并探究圣雄甘地（Mahatma Gandhi）在社會(huì)改革方面的非暴力策略。

1953年，金和柯瑞塔·斯科特（Coretta Scott）結(jié)婚。第二年，他在阿拉巴馬州（Alabama）蒙哥馬利（Montgomery）的德克斯特大街浸信會(huì)（Dexter Avenue Baptist Church）當(dāng)了一名牧師。1955年，他獲得了系統(tǒng)神學(xué)的博士學(xué)位。1955年12月5日，民權(quán)積極分子羅莎·帕克斯（Rosa Parks）拒絕遵從蒙哥馬利公車上的種族隔離政策，在此之后，黑人居民發(fā)起了對(duì)公共汽車抵制運(yùn)動(dòng)（bus boycott）并選舉金作他們新形式下蒙格馬利權(quán)利促進(jìn)協(xié)會(huì)（Montgomery Improvement Association）的領(lǐng)頭人。公共汽車抵制運(yùn)動(dòng)在 1956 年持續(xù)一年，金因其領(lǐng)導(dǎo)地位而名聲大噪。1956 年12 月，美國(guó)最高法院宣布阿拉巴馬州的種族隔離法律違反憲法，蒙哥馬利市公車上的種族隔離規(guī)定也被廢除。為了尋求蒙哥馬利勝利后的進(jìn)一步發(fā)展，金和其他的南部黑人領(lǐng)袖于 1957 年建立了南方基督教領(lǐng)袖會(huì)議

（Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC）。1959年，金到印度游歷并進(jìn)一步發(fā)展了甘地的非暴力策略。那年年底，金辭去了德克斯特的職務(wù)并返回亞特蘭大，和他的父親共同成為一名埃比尼澤浸信會(huì)牧師。

1960 年，黑人大學(xué)生們揭起了入座抗議（sit-in protests）的浪潮，這促進(jìn)了學(xué)生非暴力協(xié)調(diào)委員會(huì)（Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC）的形成。金支持學(xué)生運(yùn)動(dòng)，并對(duì)創(chuàng)建南方基督教領(lǐng)袖會(huì)議的青年分部表現(xiàn)出興趣。學(xué)生激進(jìn)分子很欽慕金，但他們不滿于金自上而下的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)作風(fēng)，進(jìn)而決定取得自治。作為學(xué)生非暴力協(xié)調(diào)委員會(huì)的顧問，曾經(jīng)擔(dān)任過南方基督教領(lǐng)袖會(huì)議副主管的埃拉·貝克（Ella Baker）向其他民權(quán)組織代表闡明，學(xué)生非暴力協(xié)調(diào)委員會(huì)將仍是一個(gè)學(xué)生領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的組織。1961年“自由乘車運(yùn)動(dòng)（”Freedom Rides）中，金由于拒絕參加活動(dòng)而受到批評(píng)，加劇了他同青年激進(jìn)分子的緊張關(guān)系。南方基督教領(lǐng)袖會(huì)議和學(xué)生非暴力協(xié)調(diào)委員會(huì)之間的矛盾在1961年和1962年的奧爾巴尼運(yùn)動(dòng)（Albany Movement）中繼續(xù)著。

1963 年春天，金和南方基督教領(lǐng)袖會(huì)議領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人在阿拉巴馬州的伯明翰（Birmingham）領(lǐng)導(dǎo)了群眾示威。此地以白人警方強(qiáng)烈反對(duì)種族融合而著稱。徒手的黑人示威者與裝備著警犬和消防水槍的警察之間的沖突，作為報(bào)紙頭條新聞遍及世界各地?？偨y(tǒng)肯尼迪（President Kennedy）對(duì)伯明翰的抗議做出了回應(yīng)，他向國(guó)會(huì)提出放寬民權(quán)立法的要求，這促成了 1964 年民權(quán)法案（Civil Rights Act of 1964）的通過。稍后，在 1963年8月28日，群眾示威行動(dòng)在“華盛頓工作與自由游行”（March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom）的運(yùn)動(dòng)過程中達(dá)到高潮，此次示威運(yùn)動(dòng)中有超過二十五萬(wàn)的抗議者聚集在華盛頓特區(qū)。在林肯紀(jì)念館的臺(tái)階上，金發(fā)表了“我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想”（I Have a Dream）的著名演講。

金的聲望隨著1963 年成為時(shí)代周刊（Time magazine）的人物和 1964 年獲得諾貝爾和平獎(jiǎng)（Nobel Peace Prize）而持續(xù)上升。然而，除了名氣和贊美，運(yùn)動(dòng)內(nèi)部領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層也出現(xiàn)了矛盾。馬爾科姆·愛克斯（Malcolm X）的正當(dāng)防衛(wèi)和黑人民族主義理念引起了北方的共鳴，城市黑人的作用力超過了金為非暴力所作的號(hào)召。同時(shí)，金還要面對(duì)“黑力”運(yùn)動(dòng)（Black Power）發(fā)起人斯托克利·卡邁克爾（Stokely Carmichael）的公開批評(píng)。

不僅金的努力效果受到黑人領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層狀況的干擾，而且他也遭受到來自國(guó)家行政領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人日漸增強(qiáng)的阻撓。1967年城市種族間暴力升級(jí)，美國(guó)聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局（FBI）主管埃德加·胡佛（J.Edgar Hoover）則趁機(jī)加強(qiáng)了破壞金領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力的全面努力。加之金對(duì)美國(guó)介入越南戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的公開批評(píng)，使得他與林德·約翰遜（Lyndon Johnson）政府關(guān)系緊張。

1967年年底，金發(fā)起了意在對(duì)抗經(jīng)濟(jì)問題的窮人運(yùn)動(dòng)（Poor People's Campaign），這項(xiàng)活動(dòng)并沒有得到早期民權(quán)革新運(yùn)動(dòng)者的支持。其后一年，在支持孟菲斯（Memphis）清潔工人的罷工中，他發(fā)表了最后演講“我已到達(dá)頂峰”（I've Been to the Mountaintop）。第二天，1968年4月4日，金被刺殺。