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Martin Luther King III

1957 - Today

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Martin Luther King III (born October 23, 1957) is an American human rights activist and philanthropist. The second child and eldest son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, he served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1997 to 2004. As of 2024, he is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Martin Luther King III is the 608th most popular social activist (down from 604th in 2024), the 10,438th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,198th in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Martin Luther King III ranks 608 out of 840. Before him are Hu Jia, Salih Mahmoud Osman, Sylvia Rivera, Shin Dong-hyuk, Anna Aloys Henga, and Iqbal Masih. After him are Dolores Huerta, Yelizaveta Chaikina, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Lida Heymann, Neerja Bhanot, and Manal al-Sharif.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Martin Luther King III ranks 442. Before him are Marino Lejarreta, Shari Arison, Yasutaro Matsuki, Cyril Collard, Ľubomír Ftáčnik, and Philippe Riboud. After him are Adolphe Muzito, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Paolo Nespoli, Milton Cruz, Donny Osmond, and Kevin Von Erich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Luther King III ranks 10,434 out of 20,380. After him are Gustav Hasford (1947), Jesse Williams (1981), John Gallagher Jr. (1984), Michael Swanwick (1950), Florence Vidor (1895), Victor Schertzinger (1888), José M. Hernández (1962), Gilbert Colgate (1899), Maxine Kumin (1925), Charles Sprague Sargent (1841), Tenskwatawa (1775), and Cara Buono (1974).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Martin Luther King III ranks 91. Before him are Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Ella Baker (1903), Albert Parsons (1848), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Mamie Till (1921), and Sylvia Rivera (1951). After him are Dolores Huerta (1930), Barbara Bush (1981), Yolanda King (1955), James Meredith (1933), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), and Aaron Swartz (1986).

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