He did not always want to be a pastor.
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King with his mother and civil rights advocate Henry Elkins at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
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He was only 26 when he began his career as an activist.
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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest.
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He survived an early assassination attempt.
His “Letter from Birmingham Jail” became an iconic text of the Civil Rights Movement.
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King being arrested in 1958.
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One of his most important advisors was nearly written out of history.
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Bayard Rustin (left) with Cleveland Robinson, Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the March on Washington.
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The March on Washington.
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When he won the Nobel Peace Prize, King was the youngest person to have ever received the award.
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King watches on as President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
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At the end of his life, King's activism was expanding into new areas.
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The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C.
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