DictationBorn in 1929, young Martin was a gifted child who entered Morehouse College at 15 yearsold, where he studied theologyunder the mentorship of Dr. Benjamin Mays. In 1955, Martin Luther King earned a1______in theology from Boston University. That year, he made his first 2______mark on the civil rights movement leading a bus 3______in Alabama.Under Alabama's 4______laws of that time, black customers were required to ride in the back of the bus, and to give up their seat for a white passenger. But on December 1, 1955, African American seamstress Rosa Parks, tired after a hard day's work, refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger; she was arrested and5______.Four days later, Dr. King organized a bus boycott, during which African Americans refused to ride city buses to6______segregated seating. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system. The bus boycott is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. 7______against segregation.On July 2, 1964, the hard work of Dr. King and thousands of civil rights activists was rewarded with the signing of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits segregation in public places, as well as employment8______on the basis of race, color, region, gender or national origin.For his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice, Dr. King was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. At 35 years of age, he was the youngest person ever to receive the award.On April 4th, 1968, as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. King was 9______shot by petty thief and virulent racist James Earl Ray.At the time of his death. Dr. Kingwas 39 years old.Nonetheless, his life is well summed up in his own words: “The quality, not the 10______, of one‘s life is what is important.