I heard the Martin Luter King Jr. believed in freedom and equality for all people. He was African-American minister with strong religious beliefs, and he was an excellent public speaker. He was main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during 1950s and 1960s. He inspired by transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau and Manhandas Gandhi, so he led nonviolent protests such as sit-ins and marches all over the country to end segregation and gain equality. He won Novel Peace Prize in 1964 for his use of nonviolence act of 1965. However, he was assassinated during a protest march in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.