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Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • She also said I should tell them Martin Luther King, Jr., would be ashamed of their behavior.†  (source)
  • After the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baltimore burned.†  (source)
  • He would be one of those drum majors for freedom that Martin Luther King talked about.†  (source)
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  • In 1964, Martin Luther King declared Savannah "the most desegregated city in the South."†  (source)
    Martin Luther King = inspiring U.S. civil rights leader who campaigned against the segregation of blacks
  • 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)
  • The marches in Birmingham, Martin Luther King.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • That spring—in the same month—Martin Luther King had been assassinated and Hair had opened on Broadway; the summer of '68 suffered from what would become the society's commonplace blend of the murderous and the trivial.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • On August 28, 1963, two hundred thousand people marched on Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress to pass the Civil Rights Bill, and heard Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his unforgettable "I have a dream" speech.†  (source)
  • I don't believe Martin Luther King Jr. went to Harvard.†  (source)
  • It was Martin Luther King Day, our last day before classes started again, and I could think of nothing but having killed her.†  (source)
  • He passed Second Presbyterian Church, from which Martin Luther King Jr. staged his last march before he was shot and killed—now abandoned and boarded shut.†  (source)
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