1. Martin Luther King, Jr
It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. ... The movement that King led swept all that away. ... The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year, demonstrating a new spirit of protest among Southern blacks. 50,000 blacks with Martin Luther King Jr., as their leader, had won out against injus...
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