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Martin Luther King was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and has become a human rights icon.

Martin Luther King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.

He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee.