King, Martin Luther, Jr.

1929–1968
African American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement, and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.

1929–1968
African American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement, and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest.
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.