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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), one of the leaders of the black civil rights movement in the United States. The movement, which took place between 1954 and 1968, was the struggle to end racial segregation and racial discrimination, especially in the south of the country, where laws known as Jim Crow legally separated blacks and whites. Martin Luther King Jr. was known after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to get up from the bus seat to make way for a white man in the town of Montgomery, Alabama - where King was a pastor in a church and led a boycott City bus. This happened in 1954. The black civil rights movement gained national strength almost ten years later in 1963 with the campaign of Birmingham, a violently racist city. In Birmingham,

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