Martin Luther King Jr. received three Grammy nominations for best spoken word recording. Three years after his death, he received the honor. Ralph David Abernathy is the only person who has won both an Emmy and a Grammy. King, who was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, was an American civil rights leader who mobilized protests against racial segregation and discrimination during the 1950s and 1960s. He led marches, gave speeches, organized boycotts, and penned letters urging people to vote with their feet rather than their tongues when confronted with racism. After graduating from Morehouse College in 1948, King went to work as a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for two years. In 1950, he became director of activities for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Two years later, he launched a campaign called "Million Man March", which brought thousands of black men out of prison, where they were concentrated in large numbers due to laws that targeted them specifically because of their race. The campaign drew national attention and helped bring about changes such as sentencing reform and job opportunities. In 1957, King began a program called "Southern Christian Leadership Conference" (SCLC) to continue organizing marches and other demonstrations.