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martin luther king jr.

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1. King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr.noun

   United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

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1. Martin Luther King Jr.

   Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African-American church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience. Inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, he led targeted, nonviolent resistance against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination. King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The civil rights movement achieved pivotal legislative gains in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic standoffs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent, King was jailed several times. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963 forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, spied on his personal life, and secretly recorded him. The FBI in 1964 mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam War. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by national mourning, as well as anger leading to riots in many U.S. cities. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2003. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in cities and states throughout the United States beginning in 1971; the federal holiday was first observed in 1986, through legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and King County in Washington State was rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.

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1. martin luther king jr.

   Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Best known for his advocacy of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience, King fought against racial discrimination in federal and state law. He is perhaps most notable for his "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the 1963 March on Washington, which played a pivotal role in ending legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his peace efforts. He was assassinated in 1968, but continues to be revered for his contributions to American civil rights.

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Examples of martin luther king jr. in a Sentence

1. Jenny Radesky:

   You can also show them videos of peaceful protests from the past, where people were inspired to demand fair treatment, just skip those and start showing your young kids the Martin Luther King Jr. or other video once the ad has passed.

2. Alveda King:

   I believe that AOC really should take a page out of Martin Luther King Jr.'s book.

3. CJ Pearson:

   We live in a world that has popularized Black people showing the same hate towards white people that people like Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to overcome. It’s sad. Sad as hell.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   We have to end institutional racism but we have to deal with the reality that 50% of young black kids are unemployed, that we have massive poverty in America, that we have an unsustainable level of income and wealth inequality, as Martin Luther King Jr. told us, we have address both.

5. Brooke Corbett:

   I don’t see how what we were taught in the principles of Martin Luther King Jr. and judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin – I’m curious to know how proponents of critical race theory, or whatever they want to call it, squares with this what they’re trying to push now in the kids' schools.

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