Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Photographic Story of a Life

Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up in the South at a time when black people did not have the same legal rights as white people. He knew this was wrong. A believer in nonviolence, Martin organized peaceful protests to fight injustice. He won support for his cause and became a great leader of America's civil rights movement.

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