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Martin Luther King Jr..
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
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Trump Says He Will Release JFK, RFK, MLK Assassination Records
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he will release the assassination records of three prominent figures on the 1960s. They are former President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr…
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About Martin Luther King Jr.
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 in the United States through the use of nonviolence and sometimes civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
Everything about Martin Luther King Jr. →- Occupation
- pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, peace activist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 15, 1929
- Died
- April 4, 1968
- Website
- https://thekingcenter.org