Martin Luther King, Jr.



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During the 1950s, Martin Luther King, Jr. studied the methods of nonviolent protest of the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas K. Gandhi and successfully implemented them in a civil rights movement in the United States. King expertly led the movement and forced discussion of inequality in the United States. His work inspired thousands of blacks and led to long-range changes in the lives of countless others. In 1963, five years before his death at the hands of an assassin, King addressed a gathering of more than 200,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital. There he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

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Civil Rights Movement in the United States; African American History; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Jackson, Jesse (Louis); United States (History); Washington, D.C.; United States (People); Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; African American History; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; African Americans; King, Martin Luther, Jr.

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