Martin Luther King, Jr. in a church in Atlanta, Georgia, 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the civil rights movement. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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