Civil rights movement

The photographer, who covered protesters across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award

MLK arrest

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Martin Luther King Jr. deliberately cultivated violence.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and social activist who led the U.S. civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his death in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States.

Jordan J Lloyd has added digital colour to black-and-white photos of Dr King and the civil rights movement.

Civil Rights Movement 1963

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