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A Baptist minister, King led the civil rights movement by peacefully pursuing a vision of racial justice. He was assassinated in 1968.

A photograph shows Martin Luther King Jr. flipping the bird at a photographer.

TOM LEONARD: Listening through headsets into the bugged hotel suite next door, the small group of FBI agents couldn’t quite believe the sordid events that were unfolding.

Thank you Dr Martin Luther King Jr for your leadership, your strategy, your effort, your faith, and your love for humanity.

Inside Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King's 15-Year Union

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In his 55-year career, Steve Schapiro has witnessed many key events in modern US history, and made some of the most enduring images of the civil rights movement. Steve Fairclough finds out more

On This Day in 1963, MLK gave one of his most important moments to American history. ‘I Have a Dream’ is heralded as one of the greatest speeches in human history. It stirs such emotion with a significance that echoes throughout time. Learn more in our MLK Jr. Unit!

'I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.'