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    Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,...
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    theories about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent leader of the civil rights movement, relate to different accounts of the incident that...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher...
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    swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington...
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  • delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., and often referred to shorthand as MLK Day) is a federal holiday in the United...
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  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is a national memorial located in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States....
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    The first memorial service following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, took place the following day at the R.S. Lewis Funeral...
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    elder son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, King served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership...
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    James Earl Ray (category Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.)
    convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the assassination, Ray fled...
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    Christine King Farris (September 11, 1927 – June 29, 2023) was an American teacher and civil rights activist. King was the sister of Martin Luther King Jr. She...
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  • brother of Martin Luther King Jr. Alfred Daniel King was born July 30, 1930, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a son of Reverend Martin Luther King (1899–1984)...
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    of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He was the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975. Martin Luther King...
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    before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Throughout 1964, Malcolm X's conflict with the Nation of Islam (NOI)...
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  • States Congress in 2005–2006. In the years after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., reports emerged that the government was destroying sensitive...
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  • organize the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Jowers owned a restaurant, Jim's Grill, very near the Lorraine Motel, where King often stayed...
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  • brother John in 1963 and the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in May 1968. Robert F. Kennedy...
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    rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, he was also the brother of Martin Luther King III, Bernice King, and Yolanda King; and also grandson...
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    after Martin Luther King Jr. can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis. There are also a number of other countries...
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  • 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr. Alberta Christine Williams was born on September...
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  • Thumbnail for Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
    The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life...
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    The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, commonly known as The King Center, is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization in...
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    King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was an activist for African-American rights and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr...
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    The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLKML) is the central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL), constructed and named in...
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    Members of the Subcommittee on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 95th Congress Members of the Subcommittee on the Assassination of John F....
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  • Loyd Jowers (category Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.)
    and the owner of Jim's Grill, a restaurant near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. For the...
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    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, locally referred to as King Drive is a major north–south street on the South Side of Chicago. It was formerly named South...
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  • The Mountaintop (category Cultural depictions of Martin Luther King Jr.)
    fictional depiction of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on earth set entirely in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination in 1968. In...
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  • events and figures: Francisco Franco, McCarthyism, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver...
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    attempted to mitigate was the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. two miles from the church. The day after King's death, Memphis clergy from many...
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