Talk with Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Civil rights leader
A Baptist minister from Atlanta, King became a national leader of the civil rights movement during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956. He championed nonviolent protest, delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was organizing the Poor People's Campaign when he was assassinated in Memphis.
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