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Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
Born Atlanta, Georgia
In the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King personified the struggle for African American equality and justice. King's synthesis of Christian theology and its message of a supporting and loving God, together with Mahatma Gandhi's tactics of nonviolent protest, became the defining features of the civil rights movement. In 1963, King focused the nation's attention on the African American struggle by leading a massive civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, and helping to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, for which he delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
Joseph Stein, 1969 |