Martin Luther King

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot 40 years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39 years old. And this many years later we still have a strong racial divide in the United States of America.
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His father was a Christian pastor. He studied systematic theology and at age 26 King earned his Ph.D. from Boston University. He had a terrific command of the English language and was an excellent orator. Martin Luther King with his philosophy of civil disobedience and non-violence in trying to end racial discrimination will go down in history as one of the people most responsible for the successes of the civil rights movement.

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LINKS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7330165.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King

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