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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Studio portrait of American clergyman and Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) as he stands behind a wicker chair, 1964. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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379570 26: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the background March 18, 1966 at the White House. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)
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17th May 1957: Back view of American civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968), dressed in black robes and holding out his hands towards the thousands of people who have gathered to hear him speak near the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC during the Prayer Pilgrimage. The Washington Monument can be seen in the background. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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** FILE ** The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife Coretta after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., in this March 22, 1956 file photo. Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died, former mayor Andrew Young told NBC Tuesday morning. She was 78. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)
— Gene Herrick / AP
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March 1965: American clergyman and civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jnr (1929 - 1968) listening to the radio whilst leading the Alabama Civil Rights march. On the left is his fellow clergyman and campaigner Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990). (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)
— William Lovelace / Hulton Archive
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25th March 1965: A large poster purporting to show Dr Martin Luther King at a Communist Training School stands beside the route of the Alabama civil rights march which he led. (Photo by William Lovelace/Getty Images)
— William Lovelace / Hulton Archive
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(FILES) US civil rights leader Martin Luther KIng (3rd from L) walks with supporters during the \"March on Washington\" 28 August, 1963 after which, King delivered the \"I Have a Dream\" speech from the steps of the LIncoln Memorial. 28 August, 2003 marks the 40th anniversary of the famous speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. King was assassinated on 04 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. AFP PHOTO/FILES (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
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** FILE ** Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his \"I Have a Dream\" speech in Washington D.C. in this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo. A plaque commemorating the famous speech, delivered 40 years ago, will be unveiled Friday, August 22, 2003 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/ File)
— AP
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WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: US civil rights leader Martin Luther King,Jr. (C) waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial 28 August 1963 on the Mall in Washington DC (Washington Monument in background) during the \"March on Washington\". 28 August marks the 40th anniversary of the famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King was assassinated on 04 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. AFP PHOTO/FILES (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., (C) is accompanied by famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock (2nd-L), Father Frederick Reed (3rd-R) and union leader Cleveland Robinson (2nd-R) 16 March, 1967, during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in New York. The US is celebrating in 2004 what would have been King's 75th birthday. King was assassinated on 04 April, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
— AFP
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Outside the Lorraine Motel on April 3, 1968, U.S. Marshal Cato Ellis served Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a temporary restraining order from a federal judge, barring them from leading another march in Memphis without court approval. Also present were top King aides Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, James Orange and Bernard Lee. In the wake of disorder that erupted during a March 28th march, led by Dr. King, the restraining order was issued to stop a national \"March on Memphis\" planned for April 8. \"We are not going to be stopped by Mace or injunctions,\" said Dr. King. He would make his famous \"Mountaintop\" speech at Mason Temple the evening of April 3. The next day, at 6:01 p.m., King was shot and fatally wounded as he stood on the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine. At the time, he was on his third visit to Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. (By Barney Sellers / Copyright, The Commercial Appeal) U.S. Marshal Cato Ellis served the Rev. Dr. Ma
— Barney Sellers / Young - CA story 4/2/93
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** FILE ** Martin Luther King Jr., second right, and SCLC aides Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson Jr., from left, and Ralph Abernathy return to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis to strategize for the second Sanitation Workers march led by King in this April 3, 1968 file photo. King was shot dead on the balcony April 4, 1968. The photograph is part of the exhibition \"From Memphis to Atlanta: The Drum Major Returns Home\" at Atlanta's Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site April 4-August 31, 2008. (AP Photo/File)
— AP
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9th April 1968: Mourners waiting for Dr Martin Luther King's funeral cortege to pass them outside Moorhouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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