1. Born in 1929, in Atlanta, United States, his baptismal name was Michael Luther King Jr.
2. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15, where he received a degree in theology.
3. Luther King suffered from chronic depression, which was used by the FBI to devise a plan to encourage him to commit suicide.
4. Contrary to what many people think, the pacifist was not the leader of the March to Washington, in 1963, when he made the famous speech of the phrase “I have a dream”. He helped organize the movement led by Philip Randolph.
5. He suffered his first attempt in 1958, while signing autographs at the launch of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom”. He was hit in the back with a letter opener.
6. There are more than 700 places with his name in the United States.
7. Martin Luther King Jr. won a film production in 2014 (the first), named after the town where the March on Washington began: “Selma”.