Martin Luther King Jr. (Yarayu daga January 15, 1929  zuwa April 4, 1968) yakasance Baptist ne, minista kuma activist wanda yazama mafi shahara kuma shugaba a civil rights movement daga 1954 har zuwa sanda aka kashe shi a Shekara ta 1968. An haife shi a garin Atlanta, King ya shahare ne akan neman civil rights ta hanyar nonviolence da kuma dabarun civil disobedience, na irin imaninsa da addinin Christian da kuma irin nonviolent din Mahatma Gandhi da taimakawa da wayar da Kai. King ya jagoranci 1955 Montgomery bus boycott sannan kuma a 1957 yazama shugaba na farko wato president na Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Tare da SCLC, ya jagoranta 1962 struggle against segregation a Albany, Georgia amma basuyi nasara ba, kuma ya taimaka wurin shirya zanga-zangar nonviolent 1963 a garin Birmingham dake jihar Alabama. Ya kuma taimaka dai da shirya March on Washington na 1963, anan ne yayi shahararriyar jawabinsa na "I Have a Dream". A watan October 14, 1964, King ya karbi Nobel Peace Prize donot ya canja racial inequality ta hanyar nonviolent resistance.