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Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Mother shut the door, revealing a poster of Martin Luther King Jr. that I'd put up four years before, when I'd learned of the civil rights movement.†  (source)
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    It stood at the end of Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, across the street from the historic Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had pastored during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.†  (source)
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    Hard to picture the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. dosing Governor Orval Faubus with a couple of ounces of lye.†  (source)
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    She also said I should tell them Martin Luther King, Jr., would be ashamed of their behavior.†  (source)
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    I don't believe Martin Luther King Jr. went to Harvard.†  (source)
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    Martin Luther King was shot a month ago.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the wife of the great freedom fighter Martin Luther King Jr., was on the podium that night, and I looked over to her as I made reference to her husband's immortal words.†  (source)
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    After the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baltimore burned.†  (source)
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    The plaza is a popular tourist destination not only because the giant map is fun to walk on, but also because Martin Luther King Jr., for whom Freedom Plaza is named, wrote much of his "I Have a Dream" speech in the nearby Willard Hotel.†  (source)
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    He would be one of those drum majors for freedom that Martin Luther King talked about.†  (source)
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    Often the key is a person with a knack for leadership: Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States, Mahatma Gandhi in India, and William Wilberforce in Britain.†  (source)
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    In 1964, Martin Luther King declared Savannah "the most desegregated city in the South."†  (source)
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    In Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. returned from Washington, DC, where he'd been received by Vice President Richard Nixon in the nation's Capitol, even though in his own state capitol he couldn't drink from the same water fountain as a white janitor.†  (source)
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