Martin Luther King

The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings. But above the angry noise came the voice of one man – a man
of peace. ‘I have a dream,’ said Martin Luther King, and it was a dream of blacks and whites living together in peace and freedom. This is the story of an extraordinary man, who changed American history in his short life.
In 1964, Martin Luther King became the youngest person, the first black, and the second American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He had made an extraordinary journey – but death was not far away.