Martin Luther King Jr.
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Competition:
Important person
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Description:
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King Sr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
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Photo author:
By Nobel Foundation - Description page (direct link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9719576
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