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King was a black Baptist minister. He led the mass civil rights movement in the US from the mid-1950s and won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964.
King received a B.A. in 1948, a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951 and a Ph.D. in 1955. He became a minister in Alabama.
He rose to national prominence through the organisation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. After 1965 more militant blacks challenged King's leadership. His campaign ended with his assassination. The grief that followed his killing gave way to anger in black communities. King is buried in Atlanta (Georgia).

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