As a young child, he used to play with his white friend, but he had to stop when he was six. His white friend’s father had decided they should no longer play together., When notified of his selection for the Nobel Prize, he pledged to give the prize money of $54,123 to the civil rights movement., In January 1956, while King was speaking before two thousand people at a mass meeting, his home was bombed., By the end of his visit to India, where he witnessed the results of civil disobedience in Gandhi’s homeland, he said his commitment to nonviolence was deeper than ever., As a teenager, he knew he was good at making speeches because he had won a prize for a speech. He later on, in 1948, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology., By the time of his death, he had fought for civil rights for 14 years and had written five books., In 1958, he wrote the first of his five books: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story., He was shot while he was staying in a hotel on 4th April 1968, at 39 years of age., In 1963, 250,000 demonstrators marched to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, where King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The following year, President Johnson got a law passed prohibiting all racial discrimination., Though Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi never got a chance to meet (King was 19 when Gandhi was assassinated), King learned about Gandhi through his writing and a trip to India in 1959., Since he died, many more people have fought for the rights of black people in the USA., Black people used to take different buses from white people, which started the bus boycotts in 1955. Martin Luther King joined the movement then., By the late 1960s, he had fought for two causes: rights for black people and rights for poor people., In 1953, he married Coretta after he had graduated from college and before he started campaigning for black rights., At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize., Since 2000, people across the USA have celebrated his life every year..

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