Martin Luther King, Jr., original name Michael King, Jr., (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee), Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968
In this Supreme Court case, the court
ruled that the First Amendment protected free speech and that the prior rulings
were a violation of freedom of the Press which is protected in the
Constitution. As a result, the court overturned thr prior conviction
