Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Deceased Hair: Black Occupation: Leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement First mentioned: "The Wandering Juvie" First appearance: "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Martin Luther King was the leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

History

When Homer was working as a guard in the Springfield Juvenile Correctional Facility, he told Bart that he would see him on Monday, only to realize that was Martin Luther King Day.

Martin Luther King participating in The Krusty the Clown Show in 1964. After Krusty in the same episode got snowballs in his crotch he started to laugh.

Kent Brockman mentioned that Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Desmond Tutu all have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

One of the buildings in the Limitless Frontier Horizons is the "Martin Luther King Jr. classroom".

Appearances

• Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" (mentioned)
• Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
• Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" (mentioned in Springfield Shopper)
• Episode – "The Color Yellow" (mentioned)
• Episode – "Elementary School Musical" (mentioned)
• Chalkboard gag – "Homer the Father"
• Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" (mentioned)
• Episode – "Game Done Changed" (mentioned)

External links

• Martin Luther King at Wikipedia

Nobel Prize winners and nominees
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nominees: B. L. Feringa • W. E. Moerner • Kenkichi Sonogashira • Richard Zare
Nobel Prize in Economics
Winner: Jagdish Bhagwati Nominees: Avinash Dixit • Elhanan Helpman • Bengt R. Holmström
Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner: Saul Bellow Nominees: Assia Djebar • Umberto Eco • Ian McEwan • Amos Oz
Nobel Peace Prize
Al Gore • Muhammad Yunus • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Gandhi • Desmond Tutu
Nobel Prize for Physics
Nominees: Lena Hau • Steve Harris • Vers Rubin • Oliver Williamson

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