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inspiring U.S. civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of blacks; assassinated (1929-1968)

In 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States.

Martin Luther King = In 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States.

"Because they listened to the craziness Martin Luther King was teaching in Alabama," Jimmy said.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Martin Luther King = inspiring U.S. civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of blacks; assassinated (1929-1968)

People like Martin Luther King, they said, were just troublemakers and subversives.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me

Martin Luther King = inspiring U.S. civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of blacks; assassinated (1929-1968)

Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King was shot a month ago.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
Finally we spoke of Martin Luther King and his teaching of passive but unrelenting resistance.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
I was going to go through the famous town of Selma, so I decided to walk the route Martin Luther King and thousands of blacks had taken back in 1965.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
"I don't believe Martin Luther King Jr. went to Harvard."
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
Martin Luther King had told them not long before the bullet took him down to his martyr's grave that he had been to the mountain.
Stephen King -- The Shining
It was Martin Luther King Day, our last day before classes started again, and I could think of nothing but having killed her.
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
Ironically, the school was named after Martin Luther King, Jr. Annie Blair, one of the mothers, had moved north from Tennessee.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
Even standing here in the relative privacy of the Rose Garden with Martin Luther King makes Kennedy sweat.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
Then came the period when people we knew—not knew personally, but knew of— started falling to the ground: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
We spend the next twenty minutes discussing the Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr., Castro, Lyndon B. Johnson, and government goons.
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
Martin Luther King's nonviolent political struggle made freedom and equality sound like achievable goals.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
She also said I should tell them Martin Luther King, Jr., would be ashamed of their behavior.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
I see a picture of some slaves, and three hundred pages later I see Martin Luther King.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
The marches in Birmingham, Martin Luther King.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
Martin Luther King said in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
This week we've had a lot of Martin Luther King Jr. activities going on at our school, which I actually think is pretty cool.
Melody Carlson -- Becoming Me

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