Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Morehouse College and Crozer Theological Seminary, becoming a Baptist minister in 1954 in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1955, he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. This led to the Supreme Court ruling that buses must be desegregated. King gave his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968 while supporting sanitation workers' rights in Memphis, Tennessee.