Martin Luther King is best known for his role in the civil rights movement for African-Americans. He got involved in this movement in the early 1950s and in 1963 he held his famous "I have a dream" speech. He received the Nobels Peace Prize in 1964 for his non-violent approach to the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Tennessee in 1968 and died on the same day at the young age of 39. He was in Tennessee to support a strike among African-american city sanitation workers. He was assassinated by a single bullet while standing on the balcony of his motell room. James Earl Ray was caught in London two months later and pleaded guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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