Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream that one day you'll take a shower!"

- Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. will battle Gandhi in Epic Rap Battles of History 29. He will be played by Jordan Peele.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of American progessivism.

A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomeny Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He also established his reputation as a radical, and became an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO for the rest of his life. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter that he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.

Verse 1:
I'm the king of civil rights from the city to suburbia

No shoes, no shirt but I'm still gonna serve ya.

Make ya swallow your words so you can break the fast

Then thank God almighty, you can eat at last.

I admire the way you broke the British power

But I have a dream that one day you'll take a shower.

Like the 'H' in your name you oughta remain silent

Flatten your style like bread, non violent.

Verse 2:
I've got so much street cred they write my name on the sides

I'd ring ya for tech support but I got a Nobel Prize.

N*gga we got more beef than one of your sacred cows

But I'm about to forgive you so hard right now.