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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was a charismatic hero battling for racial equality, from the 1956 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama and non-violent protest marches through to his famous "I have a dream" speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.At the age of thirty-five, Dr. King was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
In death Dr. King became a martyr in the civil rights struggle and "I have a dream" has entered into the American lexicon as an enduring symbol of the pursuit of racial equality in America.
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