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Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life to fighting injustice on behalf of all Americans through peaceful, nonviolent protest.
He thought that positive words and ideas and nonviolent action could change the world. In 1955, when he was 26 years old and had just become pastor at a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, King suddenly became the key leader in America’s civil rights movement. For the rest of his brief life, he inspired people to fight for their rights using nonviolent means.
