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American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A Black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination

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January 15, 1929,

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King faced many obstacles while on his mission for equality. He was arrested over twenty times for protesting. He was the object of several violent attacks, both to his person

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Martin was a paper boy and wanted to be a fireman when he grew up.

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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." ...I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." ...

"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." ...

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

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his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s.

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Love your enemies, but hold them accountable.

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Martin Luther King’s education began at a very early age. His mother was a school teacher who taught the young MLK to read before he even entered school. He attended David T. Howard Elementary School in Atlanta