Hall of Fame Inductee
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Morehouse College
About
Martin Luther King Jr., a Morehouse College graduate, led the Montgomery bus boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His philosophy of nonviolent protest helped win the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act before his assassination in 1968.
Accomplishments
Morehouse alumnus and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1964).
Principal leader of the Montgomery bus boycott and the 1963 March on Washington.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1986.
Year of award
1986
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame — Community Service.