The following is King’s obituary as it appeared in the New York Times April 5, 1968.

King, Martin Luther Jr.—Jan. 15, 1929-April 4, 1968. Baptist minister, integrational civil rights leader dedicated to nonviolence; president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1964); advanced the cause of equal rights for Negroes by the demonstrations he led, beginning with the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott in 1956 and including the 1965 voter registration drive in Selma, Ala.; was dominant figure in massive 1963 march on Washington, D.C.; was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.