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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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He could have been our first black president. |
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About Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929. He got shot on April 4, 1968. He was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the US, and he has became a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by 2 Christian churches. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. Kings efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. Barrack Obama is just like Martin Luther King, Jr. |
