Martin Luther King Jr./Definition

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A definition or brief description of Martin Luther King Jr..

(1929-1968) Baptist minister in Atlanta, Georgia, leader in the U.S. civil rights movement and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; gave I Have a Dream speech at the 1963 March on Washington; recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize (youngest recipient); assassinated 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee