Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968
Co-founder and first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Campaign, the March on Washington, the Selma to Montgomery marches, the Chicago Freedom Movement, and the Poor People's Campaign. Author of the Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963). Nobel Peace Prize, 1964. Assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
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