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Category: Civil Rights Movement

January 18, 2013

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Today, people across America and around the world will commemorate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in ...

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