Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 and fought for civil rights and racial equality through nonviolent protest. He earned a doctoral degree and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience. Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39 while supporting a sanitation workers' strike.
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