Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights leader who advocated for nonviolent resistance to racial discrimination in the United States. He was born on January 15th 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to an African-American middle-class family. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia and later went on to study at Morehouse College and Crozer Theological Seminary, where he became an ordained Baptist minister. Martin Luther King Jr. rose to become a prominent leader in the civil rights movement, delivering powerful speeches and leading mass marches throughout the 1950s and 1960s which sparked countless social reforms. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among other accolades, for his work in advancing civil rights and social justice. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is remembered as one of America's greatest civil rights activists and campaigners for social change.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, born July 18, 1918 in Mvezo (Cape Province) and died December 5, 2013 in Johannesburg (Gauteng), was a South African statesman. He was one of the historic leaders in the fight against the institutional racially segregated political system (apartheid) before becoming President of the Republic of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, following the first non-segregationist national elections in the country's history.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born in Porbandar (Gujarat) on October 2, 1869 and assassinated in Delhi on January 30, 1948, is a political leader, an important spiritual guide of India and of the independence movement of this country. He is commonly known and referred to in India and around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (from the Sanskrit mahātmā, "great soul"), or simply Gandhi, Gandhiji or Bapu ("father" in several languages in India) - "Mahatma" however being a title that he refused all his life to associate with his person