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Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., center, receives the 1963 St. Francis' Peace Medal from the Lay Organization of Franciscans, a Roman Catholic organization, Nov. 9, 1963, in New York. From left, Rev. Philip Marquard, making the presentation, King, and Rev. John LaFarge. (AP Photo)
Civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is followed by Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, left, and Ralph Abernathy as they attend funeral services at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church for three of the four black girls killed in a church explosion in Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 18, 1963. (AP Photo)
PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP The civil rights leader Martin Luther King (C) waves to supporters 28 August 1963 on the Mall in Washington DC (Washington Monument in background) during the "March on Washington". King said the march was "the greatest demonstration of freedom in the history of the United States." Martin Luther King was assassinated on 04 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. King's killing sent shock waves through American society at the time, and is still regarded as a landmark event in recent US history.
Aug 12, 1963 - Washington, DC, USA - Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING pictured shaking hands during 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.' Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, who became in 1964 the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races). On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday. (Credit Image: ? KEYSTONE Pictures USA)/ eyevine
Six leaders of the nation's largest black civil rights organizations meet in New York's Hotel Roosevelt on July 2, 1963, to plan a civil rights march on Washington. From left, are: John Lewis, chairman Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee; Whitney Young national director, Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. president Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality director; and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)