Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 AD – 1968 AD
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) 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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Born · 1929 AD
1963 ADMarch on Washington Locked · Opens once we have made this moment and it has been the daily.
1965 ADSelma to Montgomery March Locked · Opens once we have made this moment and it has been the daily.
4 April 1968Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Locked · Opens once we have made this moment and it has been the daily.
Died · 1968 AD
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