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Martin Luther King, Jr.: African-American Civil Rights Activist

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is most known for his role as a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, where he played a major part in conducting many non-violent protests and inspirational speeches throughout the United States. He became a civil rights activist early in his career; he helped found and became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. In 1963 the SCLC was invited to Birmingham to aid one of its affiliates in protesting intense segregation policies that were in effect at the time. The Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham at the time was Eugene Connor, who was known as a brutal racist. King was hoping to play this to his

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