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Johnson. Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White House after the March on Washington, D.C. 1963. Library of Congress ...It ought to be possible ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist and political philosopher who became one of the most prominent leaders of the civil ...

So respected was this great American that MLK Jr. delivered the invocation at his funeral, and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood ...

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Martin Luther King was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement that started in America in the year 1955, this ...