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MArtin Luther King
Title: MArtin Luther King
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 1045 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
MArtin Luther King
Martin Luther King was born on 15th January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, a city in the south of the US. He was named after his father and the family (parents, grandmother and brother and sister) called him ML for short - a nickname that stuck with him all through his childhood.
Growing up with racism.
Every day, little things made it clear to him that to be black was to be a permanent second-class citizen. For instance, …showed first 75 words of 1045 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1045 total…Promised Land". The following day King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in Atlanta. A white escaped convict, James Earl Ray, was arrested for the murder; he pleaded guilty and in March 1969 was sentenced to 99 years in prison. In 1983 the third Monday in January was designated a national holiday in honour of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday; his Atlanta birthplace and gravesite were made a national historic site.
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