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King Promoted Peaceful Change in Civil Rights Struggle
The article recounts Martin Luther King Jr. as a nonviolent leader in the African American rights movement. It notes his arrests, mass marches, and boycotts, his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, assassination in Memphis in 1968, and the 1986 federal holiday establishing King’s birthday. It mentions his early education and ministry, his move to Montgomery, and Reagan signing the holiday law.
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