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 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.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist who led the movement for racial equality from 1955 until his assassination in 1968, using nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to challenge discriminatory laws. His work mattered because he advanced civil rights for people of color, particularly African Americans, by confronting the legalized discrimination known as Jim Crow laws.
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- 15 Jan 1929
- Died
- 4 Apr 1968
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- 138
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- 1929
- Active to
- 1968
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1929 births1968 deaths20th-century American letter writers20th-century American male writers20th-century American Protestant theologians20th-century Baptist ministers from the United StatesActivists for African-American civil rightsActivists for Native American rightsActivists from AtlantaActivists from Montgomery, AlabamaAfrican-American Baptist ministers