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King at Medgar Evers’s Funeral

King at Medgar Evers’s Funeral
American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., foreground, attended the 1963 funeral procession of Medgar Evers, a civil rights organizer murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. In the face of often violent opposition, King challenged his supporters to maintain a policy of peaceful resistance to injustice.
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