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Martin Luther King Jr.

1929 - 1968

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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination. A Black church leader, King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Luther King Jr. is the 4th most popular social activist (up from 12th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from United States (up from 85th in 2019) and the most popular American Social Activist.

Martin Luther King Jr. is most famous for his role in the civil rights movement, which he lead to fight for equal rights for African Americans.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 4 out of 840. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Che Guevara, and Mother Teresa. After him are Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 1. After him are Grace Kelly, Anne Frank, Yasser Arafat, Imelda Marcos, Audrey Hepburn, Lev Yashin, Milan Kundera, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bud Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Jürgen Habermas. Among people deceased in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 1. After him are Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, Lise Meitner, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 4 out of 20,380. Before him are Donald Trump (1946), Jimmy Carter (1924), and Thomas Jefferson (1743). After him are Thomas Edison (1847), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Muhammad Ali (1942), Andrew Jackson (1767), Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Pope Leo XIV (1955), William McKinley (1843), and Al Pacino (1940).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 1. After him are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Helen Keller (1880), Rosa Parks (1913), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Margaret Sanger (1879), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jody Williams (1950), and Jimmy Hoffa (1913).

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