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Who were the Big 6 in the Civil Rights Movement?
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Rolling Out
Aug 27, 2013
11:49 am
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) a Baptist minister, activist, and the most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement. King won the Nobel Peace Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom before his assassination in 1968. For his promotion of nonviolence and racial equality, King was considered a peacemaker by many people around the world. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
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