NOUN
- United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
How To Use Martin Luther King Jr. In A Sentence
- Editors around the country are likely peering at their calendars, noting the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and cringing.
- * The pages were outlined by a thick black border and included a three-page biography that opened, Martin Luther King Jr. is like the great Yggdrasil tree, ‘whose roots,’ a poet said, ‘are deep in earth but in whose upper branches the stars of heaven are glowing and astir.’ Burial for a King
- Two brothers - one a rookie police officer, the other a recently returned Vietnam veteran - get ensnarled in the riots that ravaged Washington, D.C., in 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- In his speech he said - shades of Martin Luther King Jr. - that he had a dream.
- Senator John McCain gets booed and kind of heckled at an event marking the death of Martin Luther King Jr. CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2008
- Martin Luther King Jr. African-American Civil Rights activist.
- She said she was honored to speak at historic spar spot as Martin Luther King Jr.
- And the bylines are a who's who of great thinkers, journalists, politicians and activists, including Bertrand Russell, Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, union leader Walter Reuther, Theodore Dreiser (on what he saw as a "destructive phase" for American individualism circa 1932), Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., James Warren: This Week in Magazines: A Remarkably Resilient Progressive Turns 100, Eliot Spitzer Gropes to Turn a Corner
- I suspect that if you were to look at Martin Luther King Jr.'s doctrines from your perspective, you might find them guilty of seeming to "dissolve" at times, but I daresay that doesn't mean that his Christianity would have dissolved! Ken Schenck on The Chicago Declaration on Biblical Inerrancy
- At different times in history, the injustice of society has grown to a point where a countermovement was born in order to fight it: the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader, anhe students rights movement, where student Mario Savio as a particular expressive student, said: Erik Rasmussen: Notice of Drafting: The World Wants You!