Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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American minister and civil rights activist (1929–1968)

About Martin Luther King

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.

Notable works:

Why We Can't Wait

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