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Photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He stands behind a table. His right hand is raised. King, a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African Americans
  4. Atlanta
  5. Baptists
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Civil Rights Workers
  8. Clergy
  9. Georgia
  10. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  11. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  12. Tables

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