MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR. :
A CRUSADER FOR LIBERATION
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in
Atlanta, Georgia. King, although he was an initial skeptic to religion he
eventually became a Baptist minister, a civil-rights activist and had a seismic
impact on race relations in the United States. Among his many efforts, King
headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and
inspirational speeches, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation
of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. He was assassinated
in April 1968 and continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and
inspirational African-American leaders in history.
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