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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy
PhD scholar, Baptist minister, civil rights leader, gifted speaker, Nobel Peace Prize winner: by the time Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 at age 39, he had already left his mark as a civil rights hero, fighting for what was right and empowering the powerless.
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