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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2012
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela: What they fought forhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/I_Have_A_Dream_sample.ogg
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Key activist in the African-American Civil Rights Movement
Fought to end racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work
Famous for his “I have a dream” speech
Shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968
Apartheid
System of racial segregation enforced in South Africa between 1948 and 1994
Rights of the majority “non-white” inhabitants of South Africa were almost nonexistent
White supremacy
Ended by Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in 1994
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