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=﻿= = __﻿Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. __ by James T. de Kay ﻿  ||  || Martin Luther King, Jr., was a great man who worked for racial equality and civil rights in the United States of America. Martin experienced racism early in life. He decided to do to something to make the world a better and fairer place. During the 1950's, Dr. King became active in the movement for civil rights and racial equality. He participated in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott and many other peaceful demonstrations that protested the unfair treatment of African-Americans. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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