Martin Luther King Jr.

✶January 15, 1929

†April 4, 1968

United States

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

Baptist minister and leader of the American civil rights movement who championed nonviolent resistance and delivered the historic "I Have a Dream" speech.

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