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Martin Luther King Jr.
American civil rights leader (–)
"Martin Luther King" and "MLK" redirect here. For other uses, see Martin Luther King (disambiguation) and MLK (disambiguation).
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| In office January 10, – April 4, | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Ralph Abernathy |
| Born | Michael King Jr. ()January 15, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | April 4, () (aged39) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Mannerofdeath | Assassination by gunshot |
| Resting place | Martin Luther KingJr. National Historical Park |
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| Nickname | MLK |
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, – April 4, ) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from until his assassination in King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.
A black church leader, King participated in and led marches for
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Luther, the Tolerable Disruptor
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Lewis, David L.,
Background on David Levering Lewis
Like W.E.B. Du Bois, the subject of his best-known work, David Levering Lewis went from a precocious childhood to a brilliant scholarly career. Lewis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 26, , into a family devoted to education. His mother, Urnestine Bell-Lewis, a taught mathematics in high school, while his father, John Henry Lewis Sr., went from being a high school principal, to dean of the theological school at Wilberforce University, and then president of Morris Brown College. With this background, Lewis grew up in a family that he described as like characters in a Jessie Fauset novel1 and in a home frequented by the elite of African American society, from Adam Clayton Powell to Walter White, Marian Anderson, Thurgood Marshall, and Du Bois.
Speeding through high school in two years, Lewis entered Fisk University at the age of fifteen the same age as Du Bois when he entered Fisk and quickly distinguished himself in his major fields of history and philosophy, earning entry into Phi Beta Kappa. Although initially planning on a career in law, he changed course after a single semester at the University of Michigan, earning an MA in history from Columbia in followed by a PhD from the London School of Econ