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[https://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/19/Malcolmx.king/index.html by John Blake 19/5/10 CNN] | [https://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/19/Malcolmx.king/index.html by John Blake 19/5/10 CNN] | ||
(CNN) -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was leaving a news conference one afternoon when a tall man with a coppery complexion stepped out of the crowd and blocked his path. | (CNN) -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was leaving a news conference one afternoon when a tall man with a coppery complexion stepped out of the crowd and blocked his path. | ||
=====Jonathan Eig's new biography examines the life of Martin Luther King Jr.===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176371630/jonathan-eigs-new-biography-examines-the-life-of-martin-luther-king-jr by npr 16/5/23] | |||
The life of Martin Luther King is one of the most famous in American history. But in that life, one thing is easy to overlook - how young he was. King became a nationally known civil rights leader in his mid-20s. When he gave the famous "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington in 1963, he was in his early 30s, though his voice suggested the gravity of long experience. | |||
