Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from high school at age 15 and went on to attend Morehouse College. He married Coretta Scott and had four children - Yolanda, Dexter, Bernice, and Martin Luther King III. Throughout his life, Dr. King overcame obstacles as a leader of the American civil rights movement and worked to achieve racial equality using nonviolent civil disobedience. He was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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